Fedora vs RHEL

[David Beveridge]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, g  wrote:
>> On 04/18/2013 07:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> centos does a lot of chop and remove from rhel package and adds a lot of
>> their own crud.
>
> No.  They don't.
>

When our redhat contract ran out we did this....

echo Converting an x86_64 box from Redhat 6.2 to Centos 6.2
echo These instructions are very specific to version 6.2 (64 bit) and
need to be modified accordingly for other releases.
yum clean all
mkdir ~/centos
cd ~/centos
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-6-2.el6.centos.7.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-3.2.29-22.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-utils-1.1.30-10.el6.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/centos/6.2/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-10.el6.noarch.rpm
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-server
rpm -e yum-rhn-plugin rhn-check rhnsd rhn-setup
rpm -e rhn-setup-gnome
rpm -e subscription-manager
rpm -Uhv --force *.rpm
yum upgrade


Then reboot..