On Wednesday 17 January 2007 09:59, Patrice Dumas wrote: > As a substitute or a complement to something similar with fedora > legacy, it has more or less been suggested to allow for an upgrade path > to RHEL. Should we set this as an objective for fedora? It could > be something like ensuring that yum update can take you to the next > fedora release and then to the corresponding RHEL, without rebooting > (except for kernel upgrades, of course), or changing radically > configuration file. So, for example, FC6 users could upgrade to > RHEL5, and FC4 users could upgrade to FC5, then FC6, > then RHEL5. In such setting I don't think that we should ensure such > upgrade path for all the apps, only 'critical' apps, likely to be > usefull on servers, like network daemons, for example. Also we could > only do that for packages that are in RHEL+EPEL. This is currently not > supported, and not an explicit goal, although there are instructions > for the upgrade between FC versions: You'd be better off going from FC5 -> RHEL5. FC6 has moved on from the point where RHEL forked it, so there are many things in RHEL5 that are older than FC6. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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