[Centos] Upgrading from RH8.0 - to do or not to do?????

[dag at wieers.com (Dag Wieers)]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Michael Jennings wrote:

> On Thursday, 10 March 2005, at 18:51:13 (-0500),
> William Warren wrote:
> 
> > RedHat has said if you do an upgrade do it via anaconda..a yum
> > upgrade WILL hose your box.
> 
> They also have a vested interest in making you believe you are
> dependent upon their tools.
> 
> I successfully upgraded 2 servers running Vermillion 7.3.1 (basically
> RH 7.3) to CentOS via yum.  I've also yum upgraded from CentOS 3 to
> 4.  It may not go seemlessly and smoothly all in one step, but it's
> doable.

A project extracting the extra logic from Anaconda to make it useable from 
a script after an online upgrade, looks useful to me. As in a prior 
discussion Seth pointed out, not everything Anaconda does can be done 
online, but if most of it can i'd be already grateful :)

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