I have a few servers that I really have to build already. Got to buckle down and get it done; no more waiting for 5.2 as a 'reason' to put it off for another day. I will be building a local repository for 5.2 as soon as the ISOs are posted (well as soon as my 768Kb DSL link will allow), so what am I looking at for the 'cost' of the upgrade?
Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I have a few servers that I really have to build already. Got to buckle > down and get it done; no more waiting for 5.2 as a 'reason' to put it > off for another day. > > I will be building a local repository for 5.2 as soon as the ISOs are > posted (well as soon as my 768Kb DSL link will allow), so what am I > looking at for the 'cost' of the upgrade?5.2 should be here by Monday(6/23) or Tuesday(6/24) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080619/a19074e6/attachment-0002.sig>
on 6-19-2008 5:37 AM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:> I have a few servers that I really have to build already. Got to buckle > down and get it done; no more waiting for 5.2 as a 'reason' to put it > off for another day. > > I will be building a local repository for 5.2 as soon as the ISOs are > posted (well as soon as my 768Kb DSL link will allow), so what am I > looking at for the 'cost' of the upgrade?Your breath will suddenly be minty fresh, your hair will grow back, you will lose weight and gain muscle mass, even your "lower regions" will become bigger. For women, your hips will firm and your belly will be flat. You will look 10 years younger and feel 20 years younger! You will be the envy of your peers! Now seriously; What do you mean by "cost". If you mirror the upstream release, that should be your biggest bandwidth usage. Then point your servers at your local repo and "yum update". Then probably a reboot as there is a new kernel release. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080619/ca8f7749/attachment-0002.sig>
Robert Moskowitz wrote:> I have a few servers that I really have to build already. Got to buckle > down and get it done; no more waiting for 5.2 as a 'reason' to put it > off for another day. > > I will be building a local repository for 5.2 as soon as the ISOs are > posted (well as soon as my 768Kb DSL link will allow), so what am I > looking at for the 'cost' of the upgrade?The cost depends on what you need to do to support the distribution, which depends on your needs. For me I just started at a new company a few months ago who standardized on RHEL 4.x. I'm just starting to prepare CentOS 5.1 for use, it takes me about 3-4 days of work preparing our environment to support a new major release. Lots of custom RPMs, custom configurations etc. Though when CentOS 5.2 comes out the work will be minimal, probably 2-3 hours. At least at this company, the bulk of the load is run in Java which is easy to deploy. My last company ran the bulk of the stuff in Ruby on Rails, and there was a good 35 RPMs I had to build to support each version/architecture just for Ruby. The package management in Ruby sucks so I turned all of the ruby packages into RPMs. You don't give any indication what version your using now(if any), or what your using the systems for, so I think it's impossible to answer the question without more information. nate
On 6/19/08, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: <snip>> 5.2 should be here by Monday(6/23) or Tuesday(6/24)I'm looking forward to upgrading to 5.2! If for nothing else, for the newer version of Mozilla Firefox. The current version (1.5.0.12) crashes, very frequently, at web sites I use. The brain dead version of Konqueror (3.5.4-15) is much more stable than this version of Firefox. Everyone will, hopefully, BACKUP, before they do this upgrade!