On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:34:44 +0100, lug@??? said:
> Red Hat are the market leaders in commercial Linux and anyone
> suggesting their upgrade or package management is second class doesn't
> know what their talking about.
s/their/they're/
The Red Hat v5.3 release notes state, "In-place upgrades across major
releases do not preserve all system settings, services or custom
configurations. Consequently, Red Hat strongly recommends fresh
installations when upgrading from one major version to another."
That doesn't strike me as the most practical way of handling release
upgrades - are settings somehow preserved if one carries out a fresh
install? Of course not, so the only way in which that appears to be better
is that you know that all settings have been lost. Yes, I know that one
can carry out rolling upgrades with Red Hat, but they are not supported.
Debian puts a huge effort into ensuring rolling upgrades work, and I have
to say that they are very successful (and supported).
The above is a mixture of fact and opinion, but to suggest that
criticising Red Hat's upgrade process means de facto that I don't know
what I'm talking about is, at best, rude.
--
Keith Edmunds
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