On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 02:24:57AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> > Here we go. Conversion from CentOS-8 to RHEL-8 in 5 easy steps.
> 
> Identically named RPM's do not necessarily have identical contents. To
> do a really *thorough* switch, you need to reinstall *everything*.
>

So you recommend as last step of conversion to run this:

foreach $rpm {
yum reinstall $rpm
}

I suspect this is unnecessary, but you are right, one will have a mongrel system
unless it is done. But do you know of any case where it makes a practical difference?
Even way back when?

>
> I used to publish scripts for this, for switching from RHEL to CentOS to
> Scientific Linux and other combinations.
> 

Time to dust them off, I guess.

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