On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: > If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports > such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to > list additional repositories for remote installation as part of the > process), they could certainly make it a supportable option for the RHEL > line. The upstream supports nothing as to Fedora, and indeed, members of that project regularly (and seem to gleefully) break forward compatability 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. [I say this having done an 'upgradeany' and run into a later 'nss' in C5 than the C6 initial media provides, that required some head scratching, and a nasty workaround, to solve over the weekend] -- Russ herrold