It's not just centos, most distros struggle to do major upgrades without a lot of problems. Solving this problem is the major focus of rolling release distros like Gentoo and Arch.
-wes On Friday, March 17, 2017, benjamin barber <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Thomas, upgrading major Centos releases does seem to cause > trouble > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Thomas Groman <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I highly discourage you from trying to upgrade major CentOS releases. > > Something always goes wrong. It's also about that time to be upgrading > > everything from scratch when RHEL/CentOS release cycles end. There is > > more than just packages needing to be upgraded. the whole system is > > different. For example; CentOS 6 uses SysV INIT while CentOS 7 uses > > SystemD INIT with compatibility symbolic links for legacy INIT only > > programs. Trust me it is more difficult and time consuming to upgrade a > > CentOS6 box to CentOS 7 than to just start a new CentOS 7 box and > > migrate your stuff over. You don't want be be running EOL software > > especially in a production environment. > > > > > > On 03/16/2017 04:49 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > > > I have a custom compiled perl and to update to the last CentOS 6.x > > > packages I have to add --skip-broken. That appears to be working. > > > One concern, > > > > > > [admin@goose yum.repos.d]$ ls -R > > > .: > > > CentOS-Base.repo epel-testing.repo mirrors-rpmforge- > > > testing > > > CentOS-Debuginfo.repo error.txt remove > > > CentOS-Media.repo fc6.repo.bak rpmforge.repo > > > CentOS-Vault.repo mirrors-rpmforge > > > epel.repo mirrors-rpmforge-extras > > > > > > ./remove: > > > adobe-linux-x86_64.repo > > > [admin@goose yum.repos.d]$ > > > > > > There are multiple non stock repositories here. How do I find out what > > > non standard packages are installed? I'm hoping that perl-5.18.1 is > > > the only custom compiled and installed package. I can't do an in-place > > > upgrade until I do something about perl and the nonstandard > > > packages? I wish I could build an rpm from the installed perl... > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
