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

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Chester R. Hosey wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 04:09 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > 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.

My bet is that they don't support it because of the complexity of doing it 
right. The same arguments hold for the callback mechanism (although it 
is easier to notify something has to happen, than doing what is required).

That said, even though it's not supported, Red Hat still allows you to do 
it with the upgradeany keyword. Not for the faint of heart though :)

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