[ale] Is there a path out of the Centos 6 forest?

[Joey Kelly]

On Thursday, October 03, 2019 09:56:56 PM Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
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> 
> Much better to take the pain of a new install than an in-place upgrade.  
> Another benefit to doing that is you can see a lot more of what the new
> setup does rather than trying to force the new release to do what the old
> one did.

And it affords you the opportunity to swap out that ancient hard drive for 
something brand spanking new and much larger/faster.

Me? I'm moving away from RedHate and friends permanently. But what to use? 
Slackware and FreeBSD show promise, but each has its problems, but for now 
that's where I'm headed. I've reinstalled all but 2 CentOS 6 boxen, and I'm 
crossing my fingers for Slackware 15 before next November (right? I need to 
check again) when CentOS 6 goes EOL, since those are hardware boxes and I 
don't want to upgrade from 14.2, I want to start clean on 15 and stay there 
for a few years.


--Joey


> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Derek Atkins via Ale
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2019 3:28 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Is there a path out of the Centos 6 forest?
> 
> IIRC, there is no in-place (yum-based) upgrade from EL6 to EL7; you need to
> reinstall (which I believe you can do in place without reformatting the
> disks).  I believe there WILL be a yum-based upgrade path from EL7 to EL8.
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Thu, October 3, 2019 3:19 pm, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
> > I've said it before, but it bears repeating: it's not without its own
> > issues but there are whole *classes* of issues that are not part of my
> > world with Gentoo Linux. This is one of them.
> > 
> > On 10/3/19 3:01 PM, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
> >> Ok, I'm lazy.?? I'm still running Centos 6.
> >> 
> >> Linux t4.mnopltd.com 2.6.32-754.23.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 #1 SMP
> >> Thu Sep 26 11:58:20 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >> 
> >> I recall that there WAS an in-place upgrade, (to Centos 7)?? then
> >> there wasn't.?? This is a mirrored disk config, and I'm not wild
> >> about reinstalling just for entertainment.
> >> 
> >> For a while, there were no updates, then updates started again. After
> >> the last batch of updates, I'm seeing a small pile that won't install.
> >> 
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires
> >> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.16)(64bit)
> >> vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 requires libebml.so.2()(64bit)
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires
> >> libatspi.so.0()(64bit)
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires liberation-fonts
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires
> >> libappindicator3.so.1()(64bit)
> >> vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 requires libmatroska.so.2()(64bit)
> >> vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 requires libthreadutil.so.2()(64bit)
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires
> >> libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit)
> >> vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 requires libmodplug.so.0()(64bit)
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires
> >> libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit)
> >> vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 requires libdvbpsi.so.6()(64bit)
> >> google-chrome-stable-77.0.3865.90-1.x86_64 requires
> >> libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
> >> vlc-1.1.13-1.el6.rf.x86_64 requires libupnp.so.3()(64bit) : Success -
> >> empty transaction
> >> 
> >> I would be nice to get chrome updated.?? Any thoughts on how to move
> >> forward without lots of manual labor?
> >> 
> >> Regard,
> >> 
> >> Neal
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Joey Kelly
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