Hello all, When rockylinux is available and people are willing to switch to it there will be a humongous task waiting for many sysadmins. This will entail a bit more than simply replacing the centos-release.rpm with rocky-release.rpm Especially if you need to do it to dozens/hundreds if not thous…

I think it would be great. Most people wasted time to migrate from CentOS 6 and 7 to 8 and now 8 abruptly gets the axe. They wouldn’t like to do it all again to migrate to Rocky or whatever.

I agree with this ‘other-way-around’ approach. Create the step-by-step howto Add scripts for different orchestration tools based on the howto.

I’m not participating on the relevant team but I am 98% certain I have seen this addressed in one of the GitHub or Slack conversations as a goal. I will try to find that and report back in the next 48 hours. Someone else is welcome to beat me to that, and if I’m misremembering or imagining things, p…

Hey all – I’m back as I promised. I can’t find any specific commitment, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen! Either I imagined it, it was in Slack more than 10,000 messages ago, or my search abilities have failed. In any event, CentOS 8 still has a year until EOL, and based on the current timeline…

I’ve been searching the web for this as well, and I was kinda surprised to find a solution from red hat. a paywalled article 2360841, for those who don’t have that access. Check out this epel package : convert2rhel.noarch dnf info convert2rhel.noarch Last metadata expiration check: 1:07:36 ago …

With 63 CentOS servers (Release 6-8) that I look after, a smooth migration would be wonderful. I am old school so will always do a fresh install of an OS then just sync/splice in the bits I need (passwd, group, shadow, crontab etc). I know it will probably be a while off but can’t wait to run up my…

Replacing all the packages so that no packages remain that say “RHEL” or “CentOS” is not too difficult (we also did this internally for thousands of machines). But, as long as the starting point is CentOS, I’m thinking there is no need to replace “all” the packages. CentOS is still legal for use. De…

Based on Oracle’s script to move from CentOS to OEL, it may not be terribly difficult: [image] oracle/centos2ol Script and documentation to switch CentOS Linux to Oracle Linux

I ran that on a CentOS-6 (Stella) and a CentOS-8 installation. Only issues I had were some dependency issues with abrt packages that I got around with --skip-broken and fixed when they were the only problems left. Other issue was the script did not replace centos-indexhtml that provides the home pa…

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