[CentOS] Upgrade to 8.2 from 7.8

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
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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.