Ok, thanks. it’s now very clear…
I must stay in CentOS 7 as long as possible…
Thanks and best regards
> Le 12 oct. 2019 à 20:49, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos@xxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> On 10/12/19 8:19 PM, Pierre Malard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m looking for a method to upgrade my centos 7 servers to 8 and I don’t find anything to do that!
>>
>> I’m a very newbie with CentOS? My choices where gone to Debian or Ubuntu and it was very simple. Just some files must be changed (/etc/apt/source.list). My search suggest a RELH subscription. Is it the only way?
>>
>
> Hi Pierre.
>
> RHEL/CentOS are different then Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora. RHEL/CentOS 6.x
> was based on Fedora 12 packages, RHEL/CentOS 7.x on Fedora 19 and
> RHEL/CentOS 8.0 on Fedora 28 packages. As you can see, Upgrading from
> CentOS 7 to 8 is like directly updating from Fedora 19 to Fedora 28, gap
> of whole 9 versions, and Ubuntu from 14.04 to 19.04 (skipping 14.10,
> 15.04, 15.10, 16.04, 16.10, 17.04, 17.10, 18.04 and 18.10). This happens
> because CentOS becomes EOL after 10 years and it's replacement 5 full
> years after initial release. In whole that time, main packages like
> glibc do not change version (except bugfixes).
>
> So, differences between packages versions are VERY large, and simple
> "upgrade" would most likely mess things up.
>
> Red Hat did release a RHEL tool for upgrade, but there is no interest in
> community to work to convert it for CentOS, so trying to upgrade CentOS
> 7 to 8 is risky at least.
>
> I do not even think about upgrading my servers from 7 to 8, only clean
> install is option for me (with backup before it of course).
>
> On another note, if you do not have a pressing need to upgrade CentOS to
> 8, I would argue you can stay on 7 for next 3-5 years, or maybe upgrade
> one at the time.
>
> Many packages like php can be upgraded on CentOS 7. If you tell us why
> you NEED to upgrade your servers to 8, maybe we can dirrect you to
> solution like Software collection or IUS repository.
>
>
>
>> Best regards
>>
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>> Pierre Malard
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