Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Saturday, May 14, 2011 01:30 AM, Craig White wrote: CentOS has always been a take it or leave it proposition and thus nothing has really changed except that many businesses have become reliant upon

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Bradbury
Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would take no more than 1 month ? Get over yourself Dag ... for goodness sake. Why? seems like a

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would take no more than 1

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:05:57AM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: But at that time there should only be one point release on the table, instead of two point releases and one major release. Is everyone forgetting that 4.9, 5.6 and 6.0 were all out at the same time? Amnesia of opportunity,

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 01:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/11/2011 8:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: In my case, I have essentially three choices: 1.) Use SL 6; 2.) Wait on C6; 3.) Buy RHEL6. All of the three have costs, visible and hidden. 3 obviously has monetary costs, but both 1 and 2

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 04:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: One upgrade I did from C4 to C5 (with upgradeany) was smoother than the last LTS upgrade I tried. I liken the C5 - C6 upgrade path as trying to take a Ubuntu LTS 6.06 to a 10.04; which path I tried, and failed, to get working. In one

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/12/2011 01:08 AM, Mark Bradbury wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would take no more than 1 month

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/10/2011 08:19 PM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 03:12 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Alain Péan wrote: The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Rob Kampen
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/12/2011 01:08 AM, Mark Bradbury wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would take no

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/12/2011 09:49 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/12/2011 01:08 AM, Mark Bradbury wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3 months,

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Ray Leventhal
big snip It does not seem to matter what we try to do, what we get is petty comments about how nothing changes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Please note there is a largely silent majority that appreciates very much what the team does, is doing to improve and listening to

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Craig White
On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 06:23:52 AM Christopher Chan wrote: 6.04-10.04? Nah, you are supposed to jump to 8.04 and then to 10.04. I did 6.06 - 8.04 - 10.04, and it broke. Badly. Upgrades are difficult problems to solve, and at the moment I don't know of any distribution (that claims

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 09:12:59 PM Dag Wieers wrote: And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would take no more than 1 month ? I can easily think of a few. 4.9 and 6.0 are two of those few. Again, I'll note that SL is just now releasing the second beta of 5.6 this

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Craig White wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ? And given that C5.6 took 3

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote:  • 2011-01-13: Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6  • 2010-11-10: Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 2 months elapsed from release of 6.0 before 5.6 and more than another month before

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Steve Clark wrote on 05/12/2011 10:15 AM: Please note there is a largely silent majority that appreciates very much what the team does, is doing to improve and listening to suggestions Keep up the great work - Thanks +1 ++1 Please trim your posts. 60+ included lines and 2k characters for

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/12/2011 10:09 AM, Craig White wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ?

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/12/2011 10:09 AM, Craig White wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than the C5.5 - C5.6 differences ?

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/12/2011 8:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: It does not seem to matter what we try to do, what we get is petty comments about how nothing changes. I think that will change to the extent that the project changes are visible. Thank you for posting all the links. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 05/12/2011 05:49 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/12/2011 10:09 AM, Craig White wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradburymark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: This is NOT the case with 6.0. First off, we can not use any of the

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:49 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: It does not seem to matter what we try to do, what we get is petty comments about how nothing changes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Johnny, don't let this type of comment upset you as: Please note there is a largely

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: But, yes, there are a few missing srpms even as of now ... bug number please -- Russ herrold ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you expect the C6.0 - C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less complex than

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:41 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: But, yes, there are a few missing srpms even as of now ... bug number please Jeff_S knows. He filed a bunch at upstream bugzilla requesting the release of missing srpms. Akemi

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:41 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2011, Akemi Yagi wrote: But, yes, there are a few missing srpms even as of now ... bug number please Jeff_S knows. He filed a bunch at upstream bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread aurfalien
On May 12, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: CentOS chose another. Personally I happen to agree with CentOS' choice here. +1 - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:34 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday, May 12, 2011 06:23:52 AM Christopher Chan wrote: 6.04-10.04? Nah, you are supposed to jump to 8.04 and then to 10.04. I did 6.06 - 8.04 - 10.04, and it broke. Badly. Ahem. With apt-get dist-upgrade or do-release-upgrade?

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:31 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On May 12, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: CentOS chose another. Personally I happen to agree with CentOS' choice here. +1 I think *both* distros made the right choice. :) CentOS and SL handle security updates differently.

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-12 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 5/12/11, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Apparently they did admit and it does change: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31347forum=53 Late breaking news: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/67 http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/69 This is

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 09:17:39 PM Craig White wrote: Upstream released exactly 6 months ago and still nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Please read the CentOS-devel list and IRC channel.

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 8:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: In my case, I have essentially three choices: 1.) Use SL 6; 2.) Wait on C6; 3.) Buy RHEL6. All of the three have costs, visible and hidden. 3 obviously has monetary costs, but both 1 and 2 have time and risk costs, since neither SL nor CentOS

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:51:08 PM Les Mikesell wrote: I've always been a fan of the coordination they have among the additional repositories that is lacking in yum/rpm equivalents and was impressed when my 9.0.4 installs painlessly upgraded themselves to 10.0.4. You must not have

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 3:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:51:08 PM Les Mikesell wrote: I've always been a fan of the coordination they have among the additional repositories that is lacking in yum/rpm equivalents and was impressed when my 9.0.4 installs painlessly upgraded

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
[drifting farther off-topic] On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 04:34:49 PM Les Mikesell wrote: On 5/11/2011 3:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: And you must not use PostgreSQL, which won't painlessly upgrade on anything. Automatically doing the dump/load (and magically finding the space for

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Mathieu Baudier
nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Apparently they did admit and it does change: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31347forum=53

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mathieu Baudier wrote on 05/11/2011 04:59 PM: nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Apparently they did admit and it does change:

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/10/2011 08:12 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Alain Péan wrote: The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for C6.0, and it will be better to stay

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-10 Thread Alain Péan
Le 09/05/2011 18:36, Benjamin Smith a écrit : On Saturday, May 07, 2011 11:52:21 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: in-place upgrade of C5 to C6 will be most likely impossible. To many changes of how thing work. Thankfully, the only in-place upgrades I'll really consider is to cross-grade SL6

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-10 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Alain Péan wrote: The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for C6.0, and it will be better to stay under SL6, until the release of C6.1. I already installed three machines under SL6, and it

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-10 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 10 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Alain Péan wrote: The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for C6.0, and it will be better to stay under SL6, until the release of C6.1. I already

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-10 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 12:13 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Alain Péan wrote: The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for C6.0, and it will be better to stay under SL6, until the release

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-10 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 03:12 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Alain Péan wrote: The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for C6.0, and it will be

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-09 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Saturday, May 07, 2011 11:52:21 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: in-place upgrade of C5 to C6 will be most likely impossible. To many changes of how thing work. Thankfully, the only in-place upgrades I'll really consider is to cross-grade SL6 to C6. I've started testing with SL6 and will

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 7 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: in-place upgrade of C5 to C6 will be most likely impossible. To many changes of how thing work. In local testing built from the anaconda and related sources that will become CentOS 6, the offer to upgrade an existing install is made during a

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-07 Thread Chuck Munro
On 05/07/2011 09:00 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux? I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-07 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Chuck Munro wrote: On 05/07/2011 09:00 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux? I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6

[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Benjamin Smith
I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux? I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux? Fresh install of 6.0 without a hitch a while ago. Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts. //me

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/06/2011 01:31 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote: I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux? I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:44:40 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Christopher J. Buckley
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 19:31, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.comwrote: I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Nicolas Ross
I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/6/2011 1:44 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement date, and is

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux) From: Nicolas Ross rossnick-li...@cybercat.ca To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, May 06, 2011 2:38:42 PM While waiting for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Nicolas Ross
While waiting for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6, but it was troublesome to install packeges. So for those servers that were already installed, I switched them to SL6 without having to re-install, and it went great without a pain. Did you perform a yum reinstall \* or

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