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What's with all the FUD? I just ran 'yum update' on my VPS (6.4 -> 6.5) yesterday without any hassle at all. It doesn't just start downloading things out of the

What's with all the FUD? I just ran 'yum update' on my VPS (6.4 -> 6.5) yesterday without any hassle at all. It doesn't just start downloading things out of the blue you know, it'll check first what packages are available and then ask what you want to do. If you have broken packages, you can skip those with --skip-broken flag, of which it will remind you if you have them! Worked like a charm. Your upgrade process is often a reflection of your installation process: if you were uncareful and skipped over details, such things have a tendency to bite you in the rear. E.g.: Don't mix repositories offering the same software but with different configurations, like clamav, or you will have a bad time. This was one of my stumbling blocks, but I learned from it. When upgrading major versions eg from 5.x to 6.x, I agree that a reinstall is probably more apt.

kbenson 13y ago
It's people speaking about things they know little to nothing about. For example referring to apt as superior to yum because major release version upgrades using yum is not recommended. This ignores that: - It's not talking about what they think it's talking about. 6.4 to 6.5 is a minor, or point release, and is fully expected to be updated using yum. - Even if it was a problem, that would be a problem mostly of the package format (rpm vs deb) and what it supports or how they were created by the maintainers, not the tools that take the packages and use them to determine dependencies and apply the updates. - The package formats are similar enough in capabilities that the package managers can actually handle repos of the other packages. You can get apt on CentOS, and yum on debian based systems, and use them on the native packages with a little work. RHEL really is a best of class distro, and just because they've focused less on swizzy-look-cool features doesn't mean they've been resting on their laurels. They've invested a lot in making sure the distro works well in their entire ecosystem of products, and just plain works without too many problems. In a way, they are the Microsoft of lniux distributions, in that they have a solution for just about everything, and it just works most the time. In a way, it's the best of both worlds.
sneak 13y ago
> I agree that a reinstall is probably more apt. I see what you did there.

kbenson 13y ago

It's people speaking about things they know little to nothing about. For example referring to apt as superior to yum because major release version upgrades using yum is not recommended. This ignores that: - It's not talking about what they think it's talking about. 6.4 to 6.5 is a minor, or point release, and is fully expected to be updated using yum. - Even if it was a problem, that would be a problem mostly of the package format (rpm vs deb) and what it supports or how they were created by the maintainers, not the tools that take the packages and use them to determine dependencies and apply the updates. - The package formats are similar enough in capabilities that the package managers can actually handle repos of the other packages. You can get apt on CentOS, and yum on debian based systems, and use them on the native packages with a little work. RHEL really is a best of class distro, and just because they've focused less on swizzy-look-cool features doesn't mean they've been resting on their laurels. They've invested a lot in making sure the distro works well in their entire ecosystem of products, and just plain works without too many problems. In a way, they are the Microsoft of lniux distributions, in that they have a solution for just about everything, and it just works most the time. In a way, it's the best of both worlds.

sneak 13y ago

> I agree that a reinstall is probably more apt. I see what you did there.