On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> This is where the one of the major differences between the RPM packaging and
>>> the DEB packaging shows itself. Debian (and Debian-derivatives) take
>>> advantage of the possibility o
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 08:05:31 PM you wrote:
> You can add "%pre" and/or "%post" scripts requiring user-interaction
> to an SRPM's spec file and package/repackage an RPM but it's very much
> frowned upon. You won't get a "nice" debconf dialog but you can
> _PROBABLY_ so the same thing.
T
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> There has been an 'upgradeany' command line option in CentOS at least for
>> several cycles, but it is also not supported. It might work, but it likely
>> will leave your system in a 'self-supported' state. Meaning, again, that
>> when it breaks you
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:00:08 PM you wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
>>> Yes that is our support stance. It is NOT supported by either TUV or SL .
>>
>> I remember that thread and Connie's response. I'm s
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 02:02:14 PM you wrote:
> 2. using dd and an external USB drive enclosure that mounts an external
> drive as /dev/sdX for some X, clone the drive from my wife's machine to
> this drive. As I only have a USB 2 interface on the enclosure, and
> neither her nor my la
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 11:02 -0800, Yasha Karant quoted lots ...
Please trim or cut very long quotations and make them relevant to
responses.
Many thanks,
Paul
England
EU.
On 11/08/2011 08:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:00:08 PM you wrote:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh
wrote:
Yes that is our support stance. It is NOT supported by either
TUV or SL .
I remember that thread and Connie's response. I'm sorry that I
suggested
On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:00:08 PM you wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> > Yes that is our support stance. It is NOT supported by either TUV or SL .
> I remember that thread and Connie's response. I'm sorry that I
> suggested in this thread that it was OK; I was
Apologies if I've muddied the waters regarding this! Please do not take my
word over Connie's or anyone else on the SL support staff!!
-Chris
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Connie Sieh wrote:
>> This was the exact procedure that I requested from the SL support staff
>> -- using the bootable install DVD for SL 6 to update a SL 5 system, and
>> was told that such a procedure is not recommended and is not supported
>> as one of the opti
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> On 11/07/2011 09:31 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for
major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, e
On 2011-11-07, at 10:53 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> This was the exact procedure that I requested from the SL support staff
> -- using the bootable install DVD for SL 6 to update a SL 5 system, and
> was told that such a procedure is not recommended and is not supported
> as one of the options pr
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 11/07/2011 09:31 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for
major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, etc.).
They were probably thinking about the yum update procedure.
On 11/07/2011 09:31 AM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for
major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, etc.).
They were probably thinking about the yum update procedure. The DVD/CD update
procedure is definitely
> I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for
> major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, etc.).
They were probably thinking about the yum update procedure. The DVD/CD update
procedure is definitely available - though perhaps not as nice as a co
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I have been informed that "update" will not work from EL N to EL N+1 for
> major releases, only for minor sub-releases (EL 6.0 to EL 6.1, etc.). Major
That's odd. I've done it successfully for about at least 500 Linux
servers in the last
On 11/06/2011 03:17 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Rather than hijacking the thread on vlc, I am posing this as a new set of
questions.
My understanding of the EL upgrade process, when moving from EL N to EL N+1
(e.g. EL 5.7 to EL 6.1), there
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Rather than hijacking the thread on vlc, I am posing this as a new set of
> questions.
>
> My understanding of the EL upgrade process, when moving from EL N to EL N+1
> (e.g. EL 5.7 to EL 6.1), there are only two ways
Rather than hijacking the thread on vlc, I am posing this as a new set
of questions.
My understanding of the EL upgrade process, when moving from EL N to EL
N+1 (e.g. EL 5.7 to EL 6.1), there are only two ways to protect the
information on the hard drives that have "systems" direct
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