On 06/24/2014 08:28 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> From:
> http://www.redhat.com/rhecm/rest-rhecm/jcr/repository/collaboration/jcr:system/jcr:versionStorage/6945bd2d0a05260142050b2f447f7fb5/1/jcr:frozenNode/rh:resourceFile
>
>
> WHAT’S NEW IN RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7
>
> TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
>
> IN-PLACE UPGRADE
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 provides support that simplifies the task of
> performing in-place upgrades.
> A pre-upgrade assistant package is provided in the Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 6.5 zstream, which
> reports what can be upgraded in-place and what will have to be done
> manually.
>
> The report describes the issues and links to knowledgebase articles
> available in the Red Hat
> Customer Portal.
>
> The report includes information on configuration files that will be
> modified and identifies existing
> user-modified configuration files, recommending some to be manually
> checked. At that point, the
> administrator can decide if the end result of an in-place upgrade is
> sufficient for their needs. Upon
> executing the in-place upgrade, the administrator can then inspect the
> final results and decide to
> complete the upgrade.
>
> End quote.
>
> Is the above zstream mechanism available for SL6.5 to SL7x migration? If
> not, is there to be a functional equivalent?
>
> For those who are RHEL licensees, has anyone used the above mentioned
> in-place upgrade mechanism? If so, is it effective?
>
> Yasha Karant
>



Hi Yasha,

How does this differ from
     https://github.com/dashea/redhat-upgrade-tool

-T