On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:07:36AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by NOT supporting such explicitly, the upstream avoids much support and engineering load.
Quite simply, because the customer base, which is paying the upstream for support, is requesting that such a process be supported.
If there's sufficient customer demand _and_ if RH decide it's worth it then they might support it. However I can tell you that the 20,000+ RH machines at my place will not be major-version upgraded in-place; they'll be rebuilt (possibly onto new hardware; maybe onto a split-mirror). That's how we do Linux; that's how we do Solaris; heck, that's even how we do AIX.
Our support dollars are pushing RedHat in a different direction. We don't care about in-place major-version upgrades.