On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
> I've done it in a couple of cases, but I suppose it is wise to actually
> take the server out of production, perform the upgrade, make sure
> everything works fine and then put it back in production. Nevertheless,
> in those cases where I had to do it, I didn't experience any problems.
Just my 0.02$;
I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live
system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't
see anything more annoying than having to walk through every Linux
workstation / server here and perform the upgrade w/ CD-ROM / bootdisk,
when I just as well could do it via SSH.
Compare this with the upgradeibility (is that a word? :) of FreeBSD
(cvsup, make world), and Linux has still ways to go. :-/
Actually, in Pinstripe, you _could_ do 'anaconda --method upgrade', but
it'll die:
you're running me on a live system! that's incredibly stupid.
So.. we might see this happening in the future.
I think it'd be very unwise not to boot after such an exhaustive
upgrade; the chances are that if you don't and something crashes, you'll
end up in an uncontrollable mess.
--
Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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