Re: RHEL 6 Officially Released

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/2010 10:21 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 9:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>    
>>      
>>>> Having done several upgrades from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5, my recommendation
>>>> would be to not even try it. There is all kinds of ugliness left over that
>>>> has to be cleaned up; I did it in the end, but it took a lot longer than
>>>> doing a clean install.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> That's the point.
>>>
>>> The cost to upgrade is probably higher than a clean installation.
>>>
>>> It has changed so much between RHEL5 and RHEL6.
>>>
>>> I recommend everyone a clean installation.
>>>        
>> I think the only 'clean' upgrade I had was Centos 5.2 ->   5.3 and that
>> happened by accident!
>>      
> Errr, you should be able to 'yum update' any 5.x to any other with few
> surprises.  Did you mean 4.2 as the starting point there?

That was so many upgrades back that you might be right!  :)


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