[ale] Fedora/CentOS - upgrade or clean install?

[Jim Kinney]

Yep! It looks like the upgrade process _does_ exist now but the CentOS
release team is still testing it.

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.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> 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!
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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> Subject: Re: [ale] Fedora/CentOS - upgrade or clean install?
>
> Fedora since 18 has an upgrade process (fedup) that is officially supported
> (works very well - follow the instructions!). A grouse in the professional
> realm - RHEL - has been a lack of this ability. The process of RHEL5.x to
> RHEL6 was to install to a new machine and migrate over the data. (That
> actually makes sense given the way RHEL "freezes" on certain libs and many
> RHEL systems are production so the original machines will be running until
> the network switchover happens).
>
> But RedHat has listened and now has a way to upgrade from RHEL6 to RHEL7.
> And CentOS has it as well. They do say it's a work in progress at this time
> but upgrading from 7 to 8 is a long time off.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Preston <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am unfamiliar with both Fedora/CentOS (stopped using RH things around
> > it's 7 series).  Is this a distro that you can change sources and
> > upgrade or do you always do a clean install?
> >
> > Initial searching has been a bit... ambiguous.
> >
> > Preston
> >
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James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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