On Wednesday 17 January 2007 09:59, Patrice Dumas wrote:
As a substitute or a complement to something similar with fedora
legacy, it has more or less been suggested to allow for an upgrade path
to RHEL. Should we set this as an objective for fedora? It could
be something like ensuring that yum update can take you to the next
fedora release and then to the corresponding RHEL, without rebooting
(except for kernel upgrades, of course), or changing radically
configuration file. So, for example, FC6 users could upgrade to
RHEL5, and FC4 users could upgrade to FC5, then FC6,
then RHEL5. In such setting I don't think that we should ensure such
upgrade path for all the apps, only 'critical' apps, likely to be
usefull on servers, like network daemons, for example. Also we could
only do that for packages that are in RHEL+EPEL. This is currently not
supported, and not an explicit goal, although there are instructions
for the upgrade between FC versions:
You'd be better off going from FC5 -> RHEL5. FC6 has moved on from the point
where RHEL forked it, so there are many things in RHEL5 that are older than
FC6.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora