Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Nicolas Ross wrote: By looking at the man page, distro-sync wouldn't re-install a package with the same version. For exemple, on my rhel boxes, I have tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch installed, and on my sl6's one, I have tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch. It's the same exact version

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
By looking at the man page, distro-sync wouldn't re-install a package with the same version. For exemple, on my rhel boxes, I have tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch installed, and on my sl6's one, I have tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch. It's the same exact version number. So the installed package

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Nicolas Ross wrote: By looking at the man page, distro-sync wouldn't re-install a package with the same version. For exemple, on my rhel boxes, I have tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch installed, and on my sl6's one, I have tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch. It's the same exact version number. So the

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:03:14 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Only changed packages (not binary compatible) are in CentOS marked with .centos. so those should be replaced without question. For others, running yum reinstall \* is advised but not necessary. You are allowed to run RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: And while CentOS does its best to be 100% binary compatible, I wonder how supportable a combined system (partial upstream binaries, partial CentOS or SL binaries) really will be over the complete release cycle, and what sort of oddball bugs you might run

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:59:01PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: And while CentOS does its best to be 100% binary compatible, I wonder how supportable a combined system (partial upstream binaries, partial CentOS or SL binaries) really will be over the

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:03:14 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Only changed packages (not binary compatible) are in CentOS marked with .centos. so those should be replaced without question. For others, running yum reinstall \* is advised but not necessary. You are

[CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread John J. Boyer
I have a RHEL system and I'm thinking of changing to CentOW. How can this be done most easily. It is important that the e-mail setup not be disturbed, since it was crafted to work with an IP that requires authentication. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:55 AM, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: I have a RHEL system and I'm thinking of changing to CentOW. How can this be done most easily. It is important that the e-mail setup not be disturbed, since it was crafted to work with an  IP that requires

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 07:40:26 AM Kwan Lowe wrote: Not sure if this will help, but I went the other way from CentOS to RedHat by grabbing a list of packages with rpm -qa, cleaning up the package names a bit, installing a base RedHat based on the same update level, then yum update or yum

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
I have a RHEL system and I'm thinking of changing to CentOW. How can this be done most easily. It is important that the e-mail setup not be disturbed, since it was crafted to work with an IP that requires authentication. I switch a RHEL machine in EL6 to scientific linux a while ago, and I

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Dvorkin, Asya
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:43:24 AM Nicolas Ross wrote: I switch a RHEL machine in EL6 to scientific linux a while ago, and I suppose it's the exact same thing for Centos. [snip process] You do realize that you didn't replace the RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:30:18 AM Dvorkin, Asya wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:43:24 AM Nicolas Ross wrote: I switch a RHEL machine in EL6 to scientific linux a while ago, and I suppose it's the exact same thing for Centos. [snip

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:30:18 AM Dvorkin, Asya wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:43:24 AM Nicolas Ross wrote: I switch a RHEL machine in EL6 to scientific linux a while ago, and I suppose it's the exact same thing for Centos. [snip