On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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