CentOS - Jul 2011 - What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6?

I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? 
Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my 
/etc and /usr directories and do an update?

Thanks,
John

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At Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:26:39 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
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> I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? 
> Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my 
> /etc and /usr directories and do an update?
Well, CentOS 6 is likely to be somewhat different than 5.6 -- lots of
stuff has changed.  You would get newer base versions of various
packages and a newer base kernel.  Otherwise it depends...

You'd have to do a fresh install, and then using a backup of your /etc
as a guide, re-configure everything. If your system works just fine
with 5.6, *I'd* say leave it alone for now. I am certainly not in any
hurry to upgrade.


> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:26:39PM -0500, John J. Boyer
wrote:
> I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? 
Ponies.
> Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my 
> /etc and /usr directories and do an update?
There is no official upgrade path from 5.x to 6.0.  You will need to
do a full reinstall.

That being said there will likely be unsupported methods published to
do such an upgrade; but it won't be supported and it may be prone to
issues that are hard to troubleshoot.

There is full documentation, including feature comparisons and such,
available at the upstream vendor's site:

http://docs.redhat.com




							John
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Jardine. pp. page 6
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