Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:31:36 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
> [....]
>> Ah fair enough - just wanted to give a heads up (and point to the yum
>> reinstall option) in case anyone decided to do similar.
>
> Yo! I want to do exactly that -- shift a machine running SL
> (whose list is not on Gmane, oddly) to CentOS, if possible without losing
> my tweaks nor my data.
>
> But I'm confused. Your advice :
>
> I would strongly suggest something akin to yum reinstall \* and leave it
> to chug away (backups first naturally) for a while to refresh all the
> packages and teh rpm database to be in sync with the centos build.....
> requires matching, same build options for sure etc etc....
>
> is Geek to me.what is "\*"? What rpm database? The one on my machine?
> What's in the repos? Or ....? What are build options? (I don't do things
> like make and install, because I'm not competent to recover from bloopers
> -- and I have a sneakin' hunch build is among those things.) What does
> etc., etc. include?
>
> Might there be a web site somewhere with a pons asinorum for the
> subtechnoid?
>
1. Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and
redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo
2. rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos
3. rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm \
centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm
4. yum reinstall \*
5. reboot, and voilà
Ljubomir
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