Has anyone done an upgrade from RHEL3 to RHEL4? Is this likely to break a lot of things? How long will Centos be supporting version 3? I just installed Centos 3.4 two weeks ago! The only problem I'm having with Centos is that the perl is a bit old. I have errors with spamassassin. So far bugzilla for spamassasin is blaming it on the version of perl included in RHEL3 and bugs in the 'taint' code. I see that RHEL4 has newer Perl packages.
On Tuesday, 15 February 2005, at 17:05:34 (-0500), Ken Bass wrote:> Has anyone done an upgrade from RHEL3 to RHEL4?Yes.> Is this likely to break a lot of things?Yes.> How long will Centos be supporting version 3? I just installed > Centos 3.4 two weeks ago!1 more week. ;-) If you use Anaconda to upgrade to CentOS 4, you're probably better off. Doing it with yum is tricky.> The only problem I'm having with Centos is that the perl is a bit > old. I have errors with spamassassin. So far bugzilla for > spamassasin is blaming it on the version of perl included in RHEL3 > and bugs in the 'taint' code. I see that RHEL4 has newer Perl > packages.I have yet to have any issues with the SA package I built for CentOS. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej at kainx.org> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of a soul that has lost its way." -- G'Kar, Babylon 5
Ken Bass wrote:> > The only problem I'm having with Centos is that the perl is a bit old. I > have errors with spamassassin. So far bugzilla for spamassasin is > blaming it on the version of perl included in RHEL3 and bugs in the > 'taint' code. I see that RHEL4 has newer Perl packages.Let us know what problems are, maybe someone can help. I still run my SA (3.0x) on an old Redhat 7.3 machine, and it cranks along just fine under quite a heavy load. No perl problems at all -- I did roll a few custom RPMs for the non-stock perl modules, but nothing out of the ordinary. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
I traditionally DONT do an upgrade between major releases.... it just breaks too many things and ends up looking tooo ugly. Particularly in this case a 2.4.x -> 2.6.x upgrade with udev, SELinux... I would recommend not doing an upgrade via yum. You could use Anaconda, but I've seen some bad upgrades... My advice... fresh install... after obviously saving what is required... ;) I suspect CentOS 3 will be supported for some time... and follow the RHEL support timelines... RHEL 3 is still supported by Redhat... so it's likely CentOS 3 will remain supported. Cheer,s Matt. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:05:34 -0500, Ken Bass <kbass at kenbass.com> wrote:> Has anyone done an upgrade from RHEL3 to RHEL4? Is this likely to break > a lot of things? How long will Centos be supporting version 3? I just > installed Centos 3.4 two weeks ago! > > The only problem I'm having with Centos is that the perl is a bit old. I > have errors with spamassassin. So far bugzilla for spamassasin is > blaming it on the version of perl included in RHEL3 and bugs in the > 'taint' code. I see that RHEL4 has newer Perl packages. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
For your imformation, Many updaters were publicly released by RH as Source RPMs, and now vailable from: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4) General Advisories" https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4as-errata.html Regards.
Has RedHat... oops... those folks in North Carolina decided to drop support for Pentium II machines in EL4? I have this old Compaq 3000R 300mHtz P2 which will never die, which makes for a really nice test base for new releases. Maybe the EL people have decided their subscriptions per year cost more than this server is worth and no one in their right mind would install EL4 on such equipment? Well, they are wrong, I am very left handed which makes me one of the ones who thinks in their right mind! Thanks for all the hard work! John Hinton