Major version updates vs reinstall

[Douglas Phillipson]

Mike Burger wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 
> 
>>The Debian project has a very nice capability in that it can be upgraded 
>>without reinstalling, even upgrading to the next major version.  Will 
>>Redhat/Fedora ever attain this highly desired ability?  What prevents 
>>Redhat's OS's from doing this?  Is there any effort in this area?
> 
> 
>>From my understanding, it is already possible, using apt-get or yum.

So the upgrade from RHES 3 to ES 4 will just be an "up2date"?

And Fedora core 2 to core 3 will be a yum update?

Doug P