Nicolas C. wrote:
> On 17/10/2012 20:10, Mike Burger wrote:
>
>>> According to the reseller of the product we wanted to upgrade, this
>>> method was supposed to be working, it's clearly not the case, I
>>> strongly discourage anyone to proceed with an upgrade from 5.x to 6.x.
>>
>> As does Red Hat. :-)
>
> Absolutely, but why would Red Hat *not* support an upgrade and also give
> the possibility to do it??
>
> Back in june, I warned my colleagues that doing so wasn't the safest
> way. Then the software reseller recently did a documentation explicitly
> detailing an upgrade from 5.x to 6.x as a working solution, I thought
> they've been doing extensive tests on this.
>
> They probably just saw that the official RHEL6 installer had an upgrade
> option, tested on a basic RHEL5 installation, saw that the server was
> rebooting correctly and thought that everything was OK.
>
> They are to blame but I think Red Hat shouldn't allow something
> unsupported and clearly broken!
>
I think they're looking forward to mainlining preupgrade from fedora
(which, IMO, still needs some work).
mark
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