Once upon a time, Tom Sightler <[email protected]> said: > On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:47 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > Tru64 also supported in-place version upgrades, unlike RHEL, so if you > > were running 5.0A and really needed something in 5.1B, you didn't have > > to format the drive or build a new system (rolling updates in a cluster > > means users never even see an outage). > > I don't understand this part. You can certainly do 5.0 -> 5.1 style > upgrades "in-place", and you can upgrade between major versions using > boot media (either net boot, CD, whatever) if you wish, no requirement > to format the drive.
According to the Red Hat docs, you can upgrade that way, but it is not a supported upgrade path. To me, that means they don't test it (or at least not much), so I can't expect it to work on a production system. If it breaks part of the way through, or installs a bogus package set, etc., I'm stuck with a busted system and no path back to a working system but to wipe and restore from backups. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
