Hi Team, I know is too early in the roadmap, but it would be great to have a script that converts CentOS to Rocky when we get to a release state. Thoughts?

Check out the release notes for our release which note our conversion script. Happy hacking everyone!

Just to give you an example - these commands will migrate a CentOS 8 install to a Springdale Linux 8 (from Princeton University) install (tested this on a basic VM earlier today): dnf update -y rpm -e --nodeps centos-backgrounds centos-indexhtml centos-gpg-keys centos-linux-release centos-linux-rep…

Can’t wait to try out the first build…so exiting!

Its good to hear such a function is already on the roadmap. I tried on a testbed a CentOS-8 to CentOS-stream migration and was astonished how easily this goes. OK, I found no working way back (Stream to regular CentOS-8). But, if the CentOS-8 to Rocky migration works is in similar way, we all would…

check out this little tool in epel made by redhat convert2rhel.noarch it’s git repo is here: https://github.com/oamg/convert2rhel with some modifications it might be very usefull Rob

I wanted to pop in and add that there is a related conversation here: CentOS to Rocky migration tooling . :slight_smile:

The future will certainly surpass CentOS

Hi, Just like to know, if I would like to install new Centos and in the future I can convert to Rockylinux, should I install CentOS 7 or CentOS 8.

I am pretty sure the best path is starting with Centos8. Then the command utility provided really only has to change the repositories (and maybe one or two other bits). I do not know if the same procedure is applicable to Centos7 (my guess- no?)

But a working/tested/documented migration path from CentOS 7 would be usefull too.

Transition from CentOS to Rocky

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melezhik December 22, 2020, 9:15pm 9

See my proposal - Configuration Management Options - one day I could upload “transition” scripts to https://sparrowhub.io so that user can use them …

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