<div dir="ltr"><div>Yep! It looks like the upgrade process _does_ exist now but the CentOS release team is still testing it.<br><br></div>I personally don't plan to use it much as a server that I intend to run for the next 5 years will get a sequence of test installs to hammer out the issues then a full, fresh install to go live. I don't sign off until it's gone from PXE boot install to data migrated and tested with no errors in any process. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm glad to hear that RHEL will be allowing this. Being primarily in the SUSE world, I've always thought that was a huge downside to RHEL. I have some servers that have gone from SLES 9.x to 10.x to 11.x. Being able to do that with RHEL/CentOS will be handy for the few systems we have running that!<br>
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Fedora since 18 has an upgrade process (fedup) that is officially supported<br>
(works very well - follow the instructions!). A grouse in the professional<br>
realm - RHEL - has been a lack of this ability. The process of RHEL5.x to<br>
RHEL6 was to install to a new machine and migrate over the data. (That<br>
actually makes sense given the way RHEL "freezes" on certain libs and many<br>
RHEL systems are production so the original machines will be running until<br>
the network switchover happens).<br>
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But RedHat has listened and now has a way to upgrade from RHEL6 to RHEL7.<br>
And CentOS has it as well. They do say it's a work in progress at this time<br>
but upgrading from 7 to 8 is a long time off.<br>
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Preston <<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I am unfamiliar with both Fedora/CentOS (stopped using RH things around<br>
> it's 7 series). Is this a distro that you can change sources and<br>
> upgrade or do you always do a clean install?<br>
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> Initial searching has been a bit... ambiguous.<br>
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> Preston<br>
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