Greetings CentOS Team- Since the list tends to be filled with "things don't work" and "why did you do it this way" and "complaint X", I thought I'd make a small deviation... I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues to work as rock solid as before. So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) --Tim
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Tim Nelson wrote:> So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such > hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not > a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-)I agree. I've only updated one server so far (the backup server, which is completely subservient to my will -- unlike development servers with real live users who might complain), but it went very smoothly. Thank you very, very much! -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote:> Greetings CentOS Team- > > Since the list tends to be filled with "things don't work" and "why did you > do it this way" and "complaint X", I thought I'd make a small deviation... > > I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I > simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues > to work as rock solid as before. > > So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work > into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. > If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) > > --Tim >Had I yum updated on my desktop computer I believe everything would have been fine (as it was on my laptop). But I tried the Update path from the DVD first, without doing any preparation or reading and, though it booted fine, a lot of my programs failed -- even Firefox until I ran yum update. Fortunately I had backed everything up -- and I had a couple issues that made a clean install a good idea anyhow. The clean install went flawlessly. Only thing... I tried to like the new wallpaper, but eventually Googled and found the old version. I just like the plain CentOS 5 wallpaper better. (Yeah, I'm bland.) Thanks to everyone. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090402/bde873a1/attachment-0003.html>
On 04/02/2009 06:05 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:> Greetings CentOS Team- > > Since the list tends to be filled with "things don't work" and "why did you do it this way" and "complaint X", I thought I'd make a small deviation... > > I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues to work as rock solid as before. > > So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) > > --Tim > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosHad the same success with a dozen of xen domUs and a couple of dedicated servers (both i386 & x86_64), although I made sure I updated glibc and yum first, just to stay in the safe side. :) Great job, Centos team.
I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very smooth. Before I was able to update I hit minor annoyances with getting rid of packages I didn't want installed (like linuxwacom) and a perl dependency of a third-party perl package. Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com