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 a

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

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 r

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 RH

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.

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 pack

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

2011-06-07 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

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. > >

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 RHE

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Lamar Owen
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 binaries, right? To completely switch you need to repl

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 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

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 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 > authentication. > Not sure if

[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 Abilitiess