Yeah, I've decided to get a new virtual server. Natassia On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:29 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 14:08, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So now that 8 is out - is it still "frowned" upon to do that in place > > update ? > > Is that not a good / valid solution ? > > It really isn't a good solution without a lot of hand work. It can be > done but the person doing the updates needs to figure out all the > problems before hand and probably do it multiple times to work out > various kinks. You are basically trying to upgrade from Fedora 18 to > Fedora 29 without anything in between. Lots of little changes have > built up over time from packages having things as different > dependencies to RPM modules existing in RHEL8 but not RHEL7. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Software updates are like hand-washing for computers. So simple that it doesn't seem like it could make much of a difference, but it does.