Re: [CentOS] CentOS to RedHat and vice versa

2010-08-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/05/2010 03:24 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> I've seen posts that RHEL ->  CentOS is at least possible. That is, >> take a RHEL system and get it to update via YUM and CentOS >> repositories.  I have not seen the reverse, however. > > you mig

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to RedHat and vice versa

2010-08-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > On 08/05/2010 10:24 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> Has anyone ever tried to mass replace installed RedHat RPMS with their >> equivalent CentOS versions or vice versa? > >> I've seen posts that RHEL ->  CentOS is at least possible. That is, >> take

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to RedHat and vice versa

2010-08-05 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 08/05/2010 10:24 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Has anyone ever tried to mass replace installed RedHat RPMS with their > equivalent CentOS versions or vice versa? > I've seen posts that RHEL -> CentOS is at least possible. That is, > take a RHEL system and get it to update via YUM and CentOS > reposit

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to RedHat and vice versa

2010-08-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/05/2010 03:24 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > I've seen posts that RHEL -> CentOS is at least possible. That is, > take a RHEL system and get it to update via YUM and CentOS > repositories. I have not seen the reverse, however. you might want to speak with your Red Hat support / sales guys as well

[CentOS] CentOS to RedHat and vice versa

2010-08-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
Has anyone ever tried to mass replace installed RedHat RPMS with their equivalent CentOS versions or vice versa? I was thinking of generating a list of all packages and then running RPM or yum with a 'replace' option. The reason for doing this: Years ago I was tasked with building a RHEL4 system.