CentOS 6 Releases

[Anton]

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0

Directadmin works with this release right ?

[scsi]

It hasnt been tested yet.

[Anton]

I am going to set one up to day and i will let you know how it goes.

[BurstNET_CSM]

It does not seem to work with 6.0, at least not for us.

[ditto]

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0

Directadmin works with this release right ?

Please see this post from DirectAdmin support posted 07-14-2011: http://directadmin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=206755&postcount=71


I'm just starting to assemble/mount the boxes to install the images, so I'm hoping a beta version in roughly 1 to two weeks, if all goes well.

[Anton]

hehe yes mine did not work so i will just wait for the release.. But one question i have 5.6 if i do yum update will it update to 6.0 ? so i should not do yum update ?

[nobaloney]

Yum update should not update between major version numbers.

Jeff

[Anton]

Ok thank you for that i had no idea

[Angelokreikamp]

But how you can update trough yum for major version nummers? just wondering

[nobaloney]

Read this (http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=29544&topic_id=9270) (centos.org); though it's for an earlier version, it may be helpful. You need to change the repos and should use the yum upgrade rather than yum update; see man yum.

Note that most professional administrators don't do it; we don't trust it, and we don't recommend it.

That says, Fedora (which is not marketed as a professional distribution) publishes a wiki page (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum) (fedoraproject.org) on how to do it.

Note that doing this now will most likely break DirectAdmin, as it's not yet CentOS 6 ready.

Jeff

[Wunk]

I'd stick with the major CentOS version you're currently running and just keep up with the 'yum update' updates.

With a yum upgrade you'll most likely break your whole AMP setup due to the newer libraries that are used in the newer CentOS. Since Apache and PHP are compiled from source, a lot is linked and compiled against existing libraries which are replaced on a yum upgrade.

And the fact that RedHat supplies updates for 10 years on a RHEL major version, this will keep your current CentOS version fairly safe as long as the maintainers keep it up :)

[nobaloney]

Red Hat makes security and bug-fix updates available at no charge for seven years, and enhancement releases only for four years. Information here (https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/) (redhat.com).

Jeff