CentOS - Jan 2014 - A question about 7

I've seen that RHEL 7 beta is out for some time now: is there a CentOS
version of that beta? If not, is it likely to be a real pain, once CentOS
7 is released, to upgrade from RHEL 7 beta to CentOS 7?

Reason for this: at one of my local sf clubs, I've been trying to install
Evergreen, F/OSS library software, on a system, and it's a nightmare. They
seem to have been building it for Ubuntu whateverthelatestanimalis. The
biggest problem is, IIRC, eventhandler and memchached; oh, and it uses
postgresql 9, and nothing else. PGSQL 9 was not a big deal to install, but
the other stuff.... Even trying to build it in /usr/local is a royal mess:
though I've got the dbi installed, ./configure can't find it.

I do see, with a little googling, that everything I need for an older
release of Evergreen should be installable without all this mess.....

      mark

On 13 January 2014 14:33, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> I've seen that RHEL 7 beta is out for some time now: is there a CentOS
> version of that beta? If not, is it likely to be a real pain, once CentOS
> 7 is released, to upgrade from RHEL 7 beta to CentOS 7?
>
>
Check the progress on http://seven.centos.org/

As for the latter question - too early to tell.

On 1/13/2014 07:33, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> is there a CentOS
> version of that beta?
Not yet publicly available.

I've heard they have something running in the development environment, 
but that they're still working on getting some of the RPMs to build. 
That's a prerequisite for generating ISOs.
> If not, is it likely to be a real pain, once CentOS
> 7 is released, to upgrade from RHEL 7 beta to CentOS 7?
Anything that makes a RHEL7 -> C7 transition more difficult also makes 
the reverse transition more difficult.  In this new world of Red Hat / 
CentOS collaboration, that would be a Bad Thing.  I'd be surprised if 
the transition was more difficult than just a forced upgrade of the 
centos-release RPM.

How bad is the worst case -- reinstall the OS and rebuild the software 
-- anyway?  By doing your initial work on the RHEL 7 beta, you learn 
what you need to know to quickly redo the work on CentOS 7.
> Reason for this: at one of my local sf clubs, I've been trying to
install
> Evergreen, F/OSS library software, on a system, and it's a nightmare.
They
> seem to have been building it for Ubuntu whateverthelatestanimalis. The
> biggest problem is, IIRC, eventhandler and memchached; oh, and it uses
> postgresql 9, and nothing else. PGSQL 9 was not a big deal to install, but
> the other stuff.... Even trying to build it in /usr/local is a royal mess:
> though I've got the dbi installed, ./configure can't find it.
Post an actual error message, and someone may be able to help.