[mythtv-users] Help me choose a Redhat based OS for MythBackend

Mike beatbreaker82 at gmail.com
Mon May 3 22:42:32 UTC 2010


> speaking, there's nothing stopping you from just updating to the
> latest released bits. Or from adding CentOS 6 yum repos when they
> become available and just update from there going forward, morphing
> the box from RHEL6 beta into CentOS 6. But if anything breaks along
> the way, you keep both pieces. :)


This is good to know, it's tempting I've got to say but the risk of  
breaking it may be too great a loss if something goes wrong...


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On 28/04/2010, at 7:00, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Mike Andy  
> <beatbreaker82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> -- I've got machines that have
>>> been running RHEL6 and Fedora 13 for quite some time now. So my  
>>> plans
>>> to move to RHEL6 this summer shouldn't be taken to say anything  
>>> about
>>> the RHEL6 release schedule.
>>
>> So what actually happens when you install a red had beta, then they
>> change it over to the final sold release? Do you get asked a serial
>> key or something or do updates just stop coming out?
>
> Updates just stop coming until you get an RHN subscription. If I'm
> thinking clearly though, the "supported" route to go from pre-release
> to GA is "do a clean reinstall from the GA installer". But technically
> speaking, there's nothing stopping you from just updating to the
> latest released bits. Or from adding CentOS 6 yum repos when they
> become available and just update from there going forward, morphing
> the box from RHEL6 beta into CentOS 6. But if anything breaks along
> the way, you keep both pieces. :)
>
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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