ensure upgrade paths through fedora to RHEL?

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Jan 17 15:40:11 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:08:25AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:59 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 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
> 
> IMO, NO.  We have no control over RHEL, it's packaging, or it's upgrade
> policies.

Indeed, but couldn't it be possible to build up minimal coordination on 
that matter?

> I asked today if you could upgrade from RHEL4 to RHEL5 and was told "not
> officially".¹  So if RHEL can't even officially support upgrading from
> previous versions of itself, there's no way Red Hat will support
> upgrading from Fedora.

I am not talking about supporting anything. But about having maintainers 
who care about the issue, and try to smooth things (from both sides of
the fence).

This should of course be something like a non-binding goal, think of it
about an upgrade path less likely to break.

--
Pat




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