Major version updates vs reinstall
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Sep 9 13:13:38 UTC 2004
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 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"?
Not likely. RHES will probably require the normal procedure.
> And Fedora core 2 to core 3 will be a yum update?
"Will be.."...no. "Can be a yum update"...yes.
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