Am 10.04.2019 um 19:00 schrieb mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>:> > Benjamin Smith wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:40:01 AM PDT Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> On 4/8/19 3:20 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote: >>> >>>> I'm about to rebuild a server, currently running CentOS 6. If I have >>>> to do an OS reinstall, my intention is to upgrade, as it's the oldest >>>> OS server >>>> under my purview. As this server is pretty low visibility, I'd like to >>>> see if I can start using EL 8 instead of 7.x. >>>> >>>> In the past, I was able to switch between different OS variants by >>>> simply changing out the yum.d files; EG: RHEL 6.x becomes CentOS 6.x >>>> by replacing a single RPM and doing a `yum -y clean all; yum -y >>>> update` without issue. >>>> >>>> How likely is it that similar functionality will exist switching from >>>> RHEL >>>> 8 Beta to CentOS 8 final? Google pounding provided little info. I >>>> couldn't even find useful information for the transition from RHEL 7 >>>> Beta. >>>> >>> >>> There will not be any plan to do that, no. Nor could you upgrade from >>> RHEL-8 beta to RHEL-8. They just don't build it with that in mind. >>> >>> >>> As Smooge said .. it might be possible. But the whole point of the >>> beta is to allow for design changes. The full package set was likely >>> not completely set, so some things could be removed or added and a bunch >>> of manual removals, re-installs would be required. Different libraries >>> may be linked. Etc, etc. >>> >>> I can't see almost any circumstance where I would recommend doing this. >>> >> >> Thank you. Gonna roll with 6 for a few more years then. >> > As much as I *hate* systemd, you should be aware that C 6 is EOL next > year, and then there will be *no* updates to it. > > mark "suppose I should start looking at C8"Any expectation for the date of the C8 release :-)?? -- LF
Stephen John Smoogen
2019-Apr-10 17:26 UTC
[CentOS] In place upgrade of RHEL 8 Beta to CentOS 8?
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 13:13, Leon Fauster via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:> Am 10.04.2019 um 19:00 schrieb mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>: > > > > >> Thank you. Gonna roll with 6 for a few more years then. > >> > > As much as I *hate* systemd, you should be aware that C 6 is EOL next > > year, and then there will be *no* updates to it. > > > > mark "suppose I should start looking at C8" > > > Any expectation for the date of the C8 release :-)?? > >No more than there were for CentOS-7 afer RHEL-7 came out or for CentOS-6 after RHEL-6. It takes a lot of work to build a release and that takes time and effort.. most of it staring at the same bits everyone else is looking at going 'hmmm why didn;'t that work this time?'> -- > LF > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Stephen J Smoogen.
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 13:13, Leon Fauster via CentOS <centos at centos.org> > wrote: >> Am 10.04.2019 um 19:00 schrieb mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>: >> >>>> Thank you. Gonna roll with 6 for a few more years then. >>>> >>> As much as I *hate* systemd, you should be aware that C 6 is EOL next >>> year, and then there will be *no* updates to it. >>> >>> mark "suppose I should start looking at C8" >> >> Any expectation for the date of the C8 release :-)?? >> > No more than there were for CentOS-7 afer RHEL-7 came out or for CentOS-6 > after RHEL-6. It takes a lot of work to build a release and that takes > time and effort.. most of it staring at the same bits everyone else is > looking at going 'hmmm why didn;'t that work this time?'Hopefully, not quite as long, given the work upstream was doing to make trouble for Oracle when they were building 7. But it's not like I'm in a real rush.... This would be for home, for my workstation, for my antique (2009) HP Netbook (I use when I travel for email and news). Not sure what I'll do when my new lady and I build her a new system, since she wants Linux. mark
On Apr 10, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > Any expectation for the date of the C8 release :-)??It took 6 months to go from first beta to first release of RHEL 7, and this beta is now about 5 months old. So next month for sure. :)