On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
> the problem here is the switch from one OS, a CERN release, to an > actual Scientific Linux release. That..... can be an adventure. I've > done it for CentOS=>Scientific Linux, and for RHEL=>CentOS and > CentOS=>RHEL. It's nasty, and I don't recommend it unless you're > getting paid hourly. > Actually that is not quite the problem I was trying to upgrade from the CERN SL5 to the CERN SL6, and that apparently is not supported. But neither is a vanilla SL5 to vanilla SL6. The message I get from the official voices in this thread is that there is no supported method of upgrading major versions, only minor point versions. It's no big deal. I just did a fresh install, then some cfengine magic and am back up and running in a couple hours. I was just surprised because major version upgrades have been available for every version of SL and TUV for the past 15+ years, and when the install media did not give me that option here I wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something. Jeff -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [email protected] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204
