On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 14:17 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and > > redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo > > > > rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos > > rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm > > centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm > > > > yum update > > > > reboot, and voilà > > > > The above would only update a package if the centos repos had a higher > version number than the installed SL one.... I would strongly suggest > something akin to yum reinstall \* and leave it to chug away (backups > first naturally) for a while to refresh all the packages and teh rpm > database to be in sync with the centos build..... requires matching, > same build options for sure etc etc.... > > In the event something crops up it at least eliminates an odd untested > mix for certain fundamental packages like glibc etc....
An idle question: What is the advantage of switching to CentOS 6 if you already are running SL6? Or at least... what is the purpose? I'm not really clear on the difference (other than CentOS is the noisier bit of the party). -Iwao _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
