Hello, I have a couple RHEL WS 3.4 boxes that I purchased last year. At the time, the retail-boxed Linux Pro Workstation was in the $60-80 range with supposedly $99 yearly maintenance. It doesn''t look like I can renew the maintenance for $99 any more. And why bother, I''d rather use CentOS RPMs :-) My question is: is getting CentOS 3.4 updates on RHEL 3.4 as simple a going from WBEL to CentOS as described here? http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19 - install centos-release - install centos yum - yum update Has anyone tried this? Thanks, Francois
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:27 -0800, Francois Caen wrote:> Hello, > > I have a couple RHEL WS 3.4 boxes that I purchased last year. At the > time, the retail-boxed Linux Pro Workstation was in the $60-80 range > with supposedly $99 yearly maintenance. > > It doesn''t look like I can renew the maintenance for $99 any more. > And why bother, I''d rather use CentOS RPMs :-) > > My question is: is getting CentOS 3.4 updates on RHEL 3.4 as simple a > going from WBEL to CentOS as described here? > http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19 > > - install centos-release > - install centos yum > - yum update > > Has anyone tried this? >Basically, yes ... it is that easy. I would run: yum upgrade ------------------------- Before running "yum upgrade", install: centos-yumcache This will download the headers at one time for several of the files ... saving time on the "yum upgrade". -- Johnny Hughes <http://www.HughesJR.com/> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050326/12188b1c/attachment.bin
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 05:39 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:27 -0800, Francois Caen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a couple RHEL WS 3.4 boxes that I purchased last year. At the > > time, the retail-boxed Linux Pro Workstation was in the $60-80 range > > with supposedly $99 yearly maintenance. > > > > It doesn''t look like I can renew the maintenance for $99 any more. > > And why bother, I''d rather use CentOS RPMs :-) > > > > My question is: is getting CentOS 3.4 updates on RHEL 3.4 as simple a > > going from WBEL to CentOS as described here? > > http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19 > > > > - install centos-release > > - install centos yum > > - yum update > > > > Has anyone tried this? > > > > Basically, yes ... it is that easy. > > I would run: > > yum upgrade > ------------------------- > Before running "yum upgrade", install: > > centos-yumcache > > This will download the headers at one time for several of the files ... > saving time on the "yum upgrade".----- just did it this morning... (sorry about the html - it keeps the long lines together) You could just paste these lines into a terminal rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos- release-3-4.2.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yum-2.0.8-1.centos.7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.4/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos- yumcache-3.1-0.20050105.3.noarch.rpm yum update Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050326/a31964b3/attachment.htm
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:34:24 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:> You could just paste these lines into a terminalThanks a lot Johnny and Craig. I want to do it on a cpanel box. I wonder if cpanel will notice... Francois
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:34:24 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:> You could just paste these lines into a terminalWorked great. I was surprised that yum wanted to update 30 packages afterwards, since my RHEL box was up 2 date. Looks like the centos package numbers make yum belive they''re newer (even though they aren''t). Thanks, Francois
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 17:41 -0800, Francois Caen wrote:> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:34:24 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote: > > You could just paste these lines into a terminal > > Worked great. > > I was surprised that yum wanted to update 30 packages afterwards, > since my RHEL box was up 2 date. Looks like the centos package numbers > make yum belive they''re newer (even though they aren''t).Take a look and see if those are *.centos* packages. There are several packages which have some changes from the RHEL packages. These changes are usually trademark issues, pictures/logos, web links, etc. There are several .centos RPMS (65 {out of 1156} RPMS in CentOS-3.4 ... 40 RPMS {out of 1404} in CentOS-4) ... those numbers are for i386 for each version. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050328/3c98b4e8/attachment.bin