[Yum] Migrate from CentOS 5.5 to SL5.5

[Larry Vaden]

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On 1/28/2011 1:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Larry Vaden wrote:
>>
>> While my interest in this thread started with www.yahoo.com mistakenly
>> resolving to an IP address on a wireless leaf node in rural north Texas
>> and the subsequent well-deserved chiding by mentors at Internet2 and
>> Baylor University to run only current BIND releases, I hope sharing this
>> URL will be helpful to those who might encounter similar problems:
>>
>> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum>.
>>
> Have you considered CentOS (or SL) 6? It is better then playing with 5.5.

Yes, at 64, I'm in no hurry to do other than as you wisely suggest;
meanwhile, last evening, I implemented Ubuntu 10.10 as my network
management station so I could wait a while and spend some quality time
learning how to fix the broken system.

The problem as I understand it with SL6 et al is that our rural server
room is full of single-purpose-built Compaq RAID-based machines
(cpqarray) and as I understand it, support is ending for those with the
sunset of 5 :(

Meanwhile, I wish for Ubuntu's "fix broken system" option.

> Also, Centos/SL 5.6 is due, so maybe you better wait for it's release
> and combine upgdare and switch at the same time.

YES, you are correct about that.  I believe there's something lurking
beyond my current ability to get my head around the rpm database issues
involved in Karanbir's comments, namely:

"All that you should need to do is install centos-release, remove
redhat-release rpms and just yum update the machine, which should
bring in all packages changed by CentOS ( since they will have a
slightly higher E-V-R )."

Seth, Karanbir, et al have forgotten far more than I'll ever know about
such matters.

THANKS for your input.  It is fully appreciated.

kind regards/ldv

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