Apparently, we are more talking about 3-4 releases a year (cfr
http://www.opennms.com/meridian/)
'Would be delighted to have more information about any such limitation of
the upgrade tool :-)
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Ronald Roskens <rosk...@elfin.net> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 7, 2015, at 8:32 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:08 PM, David S Hustace <da...@opennms.org>
> wrote:
> >> Have decided whether to make each new Horizon release (16, 17, 18,
> etc.) an upgrade or an update? My position is that:
> >>
> >> # yum update opennms
> >>
> >> should not move from 15.0.2 to 16.
> >
> > I don't think yum is that smart unless you change the package name and
> > obsolete the old one. Otherwise update and upgrade usually do the
> > same thing. Unless you are talking about the separate stable/unstable
> > repositories - I thought you were getting away from that.
> >
> > Anyway, from anyone else's perspective it is a question of how many
> > incompatibilities you are going to throw at us at once.
>
> Yeah, upgrade handles obsolete packages while update does not.
>
> OpenNMS has an upgrade tool bundled with it that can handle fixing
> differences between versions. To me, that means that after a “yum update
> opennms”, it could potentially manage any differences between any two
> versions.
>
> I could also see the upgrade tool only supporting the most recent N-1
> version too. Then you’d have to do multiple upgrades to go from 15 to 16 to
> 17.
>
> How often are we talking about seeing a new Horizon release? Twice a year?
>
> Ron
>
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