Centos 4.x - from 7.5.4 to 8 topic

[BoXie]

Hi,

On CentOS 4.x most of us tricked Plesk's software as if CentOS was Redhat EL 4 (the redhat-release file mod) ...

But since Plesk now SUPPORTS Centos 4 ... what is to be expected on upgrades on these systems ?

Can we just restore the original 'Centos redhat-release file' and upgrade to Plesk 8 ?

Anyone has some experience yet ?

[Cranky]

You'd be better continuing to use the RHEL releases in my opinion, as upgrading to CentOS builds could cause problems as it won't have been tested.

[eilko]

I have upgraded a Centos4.3 7.5.4 (cloaked as RHEL4) on Virtuozzo to 8.0.0. When I run the RHEL4 updater it gave the blacklist error. Then I changed the /etc/redhat-release file to Centos. Ran the same updater again and then it upgraded without problems with the Centos Plesk files.

[BoXie]

Indeed .. i've done an update test on a virtual VMWare machine, while using standard CentOS' redhat-release file.

All RHEL4 psa rpms are overwritten. But some of them stay intact .. i guess because Plesk 8's version of those files are the same (like Frontpage extensions .. etc...).

[eilko]

correct. I wish Swsoft just make one version and check for two versions of redhat-release. This way it is much more transparant.