As I am quite generous to donate time for testing I still think that a straight
upgrade path should be possible, especially with a sophisticated packager like
RPM....
On another box I upgarded debian unstable to stable with apt-get upgrade... No tweaks
necessary.
My bottom line here is not my personal feeling about this, it's about handling. Kickstart
is great for large deployments, no questions asked.
Bernd
Thomas Dodd wrote:
Bernd Kunze wrote:One reason for that is the unsupported migration from beta to stable. If that upgrade
path would be supported I'd test on my production systems once I would be sure
no major hickups occur.
I'm not sure about your setup, but most production systems are 1: backedup regulary. So you have a backup of before the beta. Install it, record you tweaks as you go. beta 2 comes out, restore to ber beta, check tweaks/bugs. etc..., Final release, restore to pre beta state, instal,... 2: Many sites use kickstart. We have a set of 20 servers, and can restor any one with kickstart. Bad disk? replace, and boot kickstart disk. 15-20 minutes later it's back up. The same is true for all but one Solaris system (using jumpstart). As you set up the server for beta tests, develop a kickstart setup. When the final comes out, it will be close to what you need. Make some tweaks and It's should be up quickly. -Thomas
