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Remote migration from CentOS 6 to Fedora 16

Revision 1 vs. Revision 2

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1	5	Recently I wanted to migrate a machine from CentOS 6 (i.e. EL6) to Fedora 16 but I didn't have physical access to the machine. Against my better judgement I decided to attempt to do it remotely with ``yum``. I found a pretty nice guide for upgrading from `CentOS 5 to Fedora 12 <http://geek.co.il/wp/2010/02/12/upgrading-centos-5-to-fedora-12>`_ . Fortunately CentOS 6 to F16 is even easier. The following is a roughly outline of how to perform such a migration.
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3	7	.. warning:: There is a really really high probability of butchering the whole operating system and having to reinstall from physical media. This is not a step-by-step guide... it's only a rough outline of the steps involved. You need to have experience with RedHat based systems.
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5	9	1. To make things easier, faster and to avoid some weird conflicts with m17n remove all m17n, gcc, eclipse, gnome, rhn packages, abrt, and -devel packages.