Is RHEL to CentOS conversion possible?

[akopps at LS.Berkeley.EDU (Akop Pogosian)]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:50:36PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:35 -0700, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> > Is it possible to convert an RHEL 3 system into Centos 3 without
> > reinstalling the OS?
> > 
> Yes,
> 
> You can install yum, centos-release, centos-yumcache, centos-yumconf
> from the CentOS-3 mirror:
> 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
> 
> Import the CentOS key:
> 
> http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29
> 
> Then the command:
> 
> yum upgrade
> 
> Should get you totally upgraded.


Thanks, I'll try it. By the way, does using up2date still work for
this purpose? It works fine with our local yum repository.


-akop