Yup. I'm a recent convert from WBEL - Rita and Katrina seem to have put a full
stop to WBEL. I appreciate the enormity of what John's dealing with, but
since he won't let it scale beyond himself, I had to go somewhere else.
Here's a bash script I wrote to convert my several dozen machines to CentOS4.
It references RPMs from 4.1 tree, which can be obtained from
vault.centos.org. (I had dependency problems using the 4.2 tree stuff; but
the yum -y update at the bottom updates the newly converted 4.1 system to 4.2
anyway.
#! /bin/sh
################################################################################3
#
# ? ? ? wbel2centos4.sh - a script to change over a WBEL4 server to CentOS4.
#
# ? ? ? see http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19
#
#
#
# Step 5 is done BEFORE step 4 to eliminate possibilities of removed yum
# "cruft"...
#
# License: This script is in the public domain. Use/abuse as you see fit;
# no warrantee of any kind is implied.
#
################################################################################3
arch="i386";
# 64 bit is not well tested.
#arch="x86_64";
# Step 1;
yum clean all;
# Step 2; RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
rpm --import os/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
# Step 3;
rpm -e diskdumputils;
rpm -Uvh ./os/initscripts-7.93.13.EL-2.centos4.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh ./os/centos-release-4-1.2.i386.rpm
# Step 5;
rpm -e yum;
if [ -f /etc/yum* ] ; then
?mkdir /etc/BLOAT;
?mv /etc/yum* BLOAT;
?fi;
# step 4;
rpm -Uvh ./os/centos-yumconf-4-4.2.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh ./os/yum-2.2.1-1.centos4.noarch.rpm
# set up the repos
rsync -vaz --delete yum.repos.d /etc
# Step 6;
yum -y update;
exit 0;
On Friday 28 October 2005 11:10, Brad Olin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody have experience with updating a wbel4 box to centos4? I
> assume I can follow the basic faq19 instructions, but that's an assumption.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Brad
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