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Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Will it be possible to upgrade SL5 over the top of SL4?
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:56:28AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Yes, it should be.
> Right now I really really really wouldn't suggest it. Not only have no
> bugs been worked out, it hasn't even been looked at. Since names change
> and packages come and go before a release (I'm talking RHEL 5), it's not
> really worth our time to iron out any bugs except the installer seeing SL4.
> Just so you know, the installer does see S.L. 4 and gives you the option
> of upgrading if you wish.
Thanks for the info. I attempted to do a local yum upgrade of SL4.4
with the local SL5-very-alpha rpms (on an expendable drive), and after
about an hour of dependency checking, there were about two dozen failed
dependencies. I could probably eliminate half by tossing out some
unused 4.4 packages, but I think I will just wait until SL5 is farther
along.
I could put my observations and experiences (and output logs) with the
SL5 rpms, and with the RHEL5 beta 2 install, somewhere for the SL5 team
to look at, but I suspect there would be few surprises to the team.
BTW, there were some apparently intentional behavior changes in RHEL5
beta 2 install that I don't like, but I don't think SL5 should deviate
from the RHEL5 behavior because of one disgruntled user... :-/
Keith
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