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This article comes with a HUGE warning. This was written using beta tools available from here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/upg/x86_64/Packages/ I will likely update this article when these tools are no longer in beta and when I perform this on my more complicated production server. Right now I’m testing these packages and this method on a relatively simple … Read more
Last modified: [last-modified] This post relates to my older post about converting RHEL 5.x to CentOS 5.x. All the reasons for doing so and other background information can be found in that post. This post will cover how to convert RHEL 6.x to 5.x. Updated 2016-03-29 – Thanks to feedback from here I’ve updated the … Read more
Last modified: [last-modified] We’ve got a semi-large fleet of Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 servers where I work and we want to convert them over to CentOS to save on licensing costs. I searched around online and found a few guides on how to do it but ultimately I had to pull from … Read more
Last modified: [last-modified] The upgrade instructions found on Gitlab’s official website are what I followed to upgrade my installation of Gitlab. The only alterations I’ve made are to match my unique configuration from earlier articles on this website. If you haven’t already upgrade your Gitlab to 5.4 before proceeding with these instructions. I never wrote … Read more
Last modified: [last-modified] This document assumes you’ve followed my previous post for deploying Gitlab on CentOS 6/RHEL6 and have already upgraded that deployment from 5.0 to 5.1. If you haven’t already switched from the default version (1.7.1) of git that comes with CentOS 6 / RHEL6 to git 1.8.2.3 please follow this post first before continuing … Read more