On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:45 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I just upgraded a Fedora Core (FC) 19 workstation to
> FC20 a week ago.  It was an old Pentium 4 computer
> I use at the customer's site.
>
> I used a utility from a Fedora project called Fed Up:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp
>
> It took about an hour.  (You have to make sure FC19 is
> all updates before it will work).
>
> SHOULD ALL UPDATES GO SO SMOOTHLY!  Fed Up hit it
> out of the ball park.
>
> Does anyone know if SL6 to SL7 will be as seamless?
> Or, are we looking at a full wipe and reinstall?
>
> I have asked Fed Up if we can have a Fed Up for RHEL
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060359
> So, far so, good.  I have not heard a deafening *NO*
> out of them yet.

FedUp is being developed for RHEL 7:

https://github.com/dashea/redhat-upgrade-tool

It's also packaged in RHEL 7 as redhat-upgrade-tool.

RH has announced that it'll support in-place upgrades:

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/12/red-hat-announces-availability-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-beta

So you have to wait for redhat-upgrade-tool to be packaged for RHEL/SL 6...