Following the migration from X/OS Linux 5 to CentOS 5 (see our previous announcement for background information about our migration policy), we now provide a migration path for X/OS Linux 4. This effectively means that updates are now taken from the CentOS repositories and that some packages, containing distribution-specific files like logo images, will be replaced by the CentOS versions.
Migration is done in two stages:
An update of the xos-release package is installed, adding an extra X/OS Linux repository, as well as the CentOS repositories;
Upon updating again, the packages in the new X/OS Linux migration repository will pull in the relevant CentOS packages and remove most of the contents of some existing X/OS Linux specific packages, e.g. xos-logos. Furthermore, all other package updates will be taken from the CentOS repositories.
Before starting the update, or at least before starting the second stage described above, you should run the following command (as root):
rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
This will import the CentOS public GPG key in the RPM database.
It is recommended to use yum for updating, although up2date may also work. Support for updating systems with apt (or its graphical frontend synaptic) is discontinued from now on and may not work properly.
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