Re: Will update from taroon beta to RHEL 3 be possible?

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:41, Alois Treindl wrote:
> Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> > Well they can seriously think about it, but it is a damn hard problem. 
> > You have to remove packages that were deprecated which can break things 
> > that you as a user were depending on. My personal opinion as doing RH 
> > support for 3 years... you end up with more pissed off customers when 
> > you 'try to support' it than you get from telling them to do a fresh 
> > install.
> > 
> 
> I understand the complexity of the problem to update an OS installation.
> 
> But Redhat does support upgrades from RHEL 2.1 to RHEL 3, which is a 
> much bigger step then from RHEL 3beta to RHEL 3.
> 
> It should be comparatively simple.

RHEL2.1 is a nice fixed target with all packages guaranteed to be older.
RHEL3beta... there have been a few and also it's a matter of "which day
of RHN".. the number of variables and variants explodes that way. As I
said, it'll probably work, but we're not guaranteeing it nor will any
issues that may result fall under the SLA.

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