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. -- rgds Stephen