[GLLUG] Problems with CentOS 4 to 5 upgrade

[Jan Henkins]

Hi, 

On 24 November 2017 17:23:18 GMT+00:00, Alain Williams via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 05:17:39PM +0000, Greater London Linux UUG
>wrote:
>> Hello Imran, 
>> 
>> On 24 November 2017 10:15:00 GMT+00:00, Imran Chaudhry via GLLUG
><gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>> >Thanks for quick reply James.
>> >
>> >I have had a similar response from the centos community forums.
>> >
>> >I might have to just accept that it will be safer to jump straight
>to
>> >CentOS 7.
>> >
>> >Do you happen to know if CentOS plan to make it easy to do major
>> >dist-upgrades in future?
>> 
>> I would imagine so. Fedora has a fairly robust upgrade tool these
>days so it should only be a matter of time before this bubbles down to
>RHEL/CentOS. 
>
>In spite of that I would suggest that an occasional clean reinstall is
>not a bad
>idea. That way you get rid of the crud that is installed but is no
>longer needed.
>A good update system cannot always remove crud.

Absolutely correct. In an ideal world I try to do this either every other distro in the case of Debian, or go for completely new installations for each new Ubuntu LTS release. Most of the time this doesn't work (normally too many 3rd party repositories, my own fault), so I always have backups handy to help me un-fubar the situation. On my servers things are a lot more predictable, since I rather go for small specialist VMs that does as few jobs as possible. Virtualisation is awesome! 


-- 
Regards,
Jan Henkins