re: RH tools and conf changes (was: Re: Vi backspace key problem)

["Chester R. Hosey" <Chester Hosey gianteagle com>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 04:09 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Chester R. Hosey wrote:
> 
> > As I see it, RHEL offers three things over other distributions: RHN, a
> > growing community of ISVs, and product support. It seems to me that
> > anything that enhances any of those three value offerings would be a
> > good thing for users and thus a good thing for Red Hat.
> 
> A good thing, or a liability ?
> 
> Implementing what you require can only be done by making assumptions, and 
> the complexity of installations together with the fact that you really 
> don't want to mess with production systems if you don't have to, means 
> that you want exact science, not something based on assumptions.

I actually would suggest that the current behavior continue, with an
extra path of callback functions that would do nothing more than notify
the call chain that something happened.

> Besides, when would you need this kind of functionality with RHEL ? Only 
> when doing major upgrades (RHEL2 -> RHEL3 -> RHEL4) and the fact that 
> RHEL3 will be supported for another 5 years means that you are not going 
> to upgrade RHEL3 to RHEL4 in production if you don't have to.
> 
> Also, major upgrades are officially not supported, so actually RHEL 
> customers never need this and the resources Red Hat has are better spend 
> elsewhere, imho.

Ah. I misunderstood. I was under the mistaken impression that upgrades
were supported on some level. Given an emphatic refusal to provide
official support for such activity, I can understand the lack of such a
feature.

Thanks for the reply!

Chet