Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 07:08, Peter wrote: > On 8/05/19 12:22 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > The >> are from me. > >> Many CentOS-7 packages will not install because they will need > dependencies > >> that the EL-6 does not have. > > Correct, and different versions of dependencies, and files go in

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-08 Thread Peter
On 8/05/19 12:22 AM, Robert Heller wrote: Many CentOS-7 packages will not install because they will need dependencies that the EL-6 does not have. Correct, and different versions of dependencies, and files go in different locations, etc. The kernel is different because it is mostly

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread wuzhouhui
Reproduce steps: 1. Prepare a CentOS 6.3 system on a VM (make sure grubby-7.0.15-3.el6.x86_64 has been installed) 2. Download kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.rpm from http://vault.centos.org/ 3. 3.1 Create a symlink with "ln -s /sbin/new-kernel-pkg /usr/sbin/new-kernel-pkg" 3.2

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread Andrew Holway
I found kernel is mismatch accidentally when I using "uname -r" to > check kernel version. So my question is what the harmness we will > get if I install a el7 rpm into a el6 system? > I would say it depends on the dependencies. If its just some userspace tooling then it will probably work ok.

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread mark
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On 2019-05-07 04:50, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 04:06, wuzhouhui >> wrote: >>> >>> Recently, I encountered a interesting phenomenon that CentOS 6.3 >>> running as normal even if I (my colleague, actually) installed a kernel >>> that build for

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2019-05-07 04:50, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 04:06, wuzhouhui wrote: Hi, Recently, I encountered a interesting phenomenon that CentOS 6.3 running as normal even if I (my colleague, actually) installed a kernel that build for CentOS 7.x (e.g.

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 7 May 2019 05:50:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 04:06, wuzhouhui wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Recently, I encountered a interesting phenomenon that CentOS 6.3 > > running as normal even if I (my colleague, actually) installed a > > kernel that build for

Re: [CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 04:06, wuzhouhui wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, I encountered a interesting phenomenon that CentOS 6.3 > running as normal even if I (my colleague, actually) installed a > kernel that build for CentOS 7.x (e.g. kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.rpm). > > I found kernel is mismatch

[CentOS] What happened if install a el7 package on a el6 system

2019-05-07 Thread wuzhouhui
Hi, Recently, I encountered a interesting phenomenon that CentOS 6.3 running as normal even if I (my colleague, actually) installed a kernel that build for CentOS 7.x (e.g. kernel-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.rpm). I found kernel is mismatch accidentally when I using "uname -r" to check kernel version.