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Things n' Stuff » Blog Archive » Upgrading CentOS 5 to Fedora 12 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:17:38 +0000

[...] time to update an old post about updates: Fedora 7 is again rather old, with the current Fedora being at 12, and 13 is right around the [...]

By: Oded

Oded — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:50:28 +0000

I just completed an article about the CentOS to Fedora 12 upgrade: http://geek.co.il/wp/2010/02/12/upgrading-centos-5-to-fedora-12 .

To sum it up – it can be done remotely, and I think I’ve ironed out all of the kinks in the process, but its hard and dangerous. If something goes wrong, then its not possible to recover the server without physical access.

By: Oded

Oded — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:13:19 +0000

Sorry, I went on army reserves duty this week. I will try to get something out by the end of the week.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:55:53 +0000

ANY HELP? RE:ABOVE?

By: Oded

Oded — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:20:28 +0000

Aj: I’m currently maintaining several CentOS 5.4 servers and for some of them I feel the pinch of not having updated packages that are available in recent Fedora releases (Like an improved OpenSSH server).

I’ll write up a new CentOS 5 to Fedora 12 article later this week, so watch this space for updates

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:26:28 +0000

Nick,
Do you this approach will work with an upgrade from CentOs to Fedora 12? Basically, same problem as yours…remote server, obsolete packages, etc.

Thanks a bunch.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:33:41 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been battling to upgrade from FC6 to F7 and was struggling with a dependency issue and your selective rpm upgrade (with no-deps) method helped me with a python 2.4 to 2.5 issue. So – thanks again and if anyone is reading this, this works a charm for a FC6 issue.