Brian May <br...@linuxpenguins.xyz> writes: > On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>> It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL >> releases). > There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge > (June 6th 2005), yet we still allowed upgrades from Woody to Sarge. > The time duration is irrelevant. It is the policy we have that we support > and test upgrades that matters. It is much easier to ignore upgrades and > recommend to reinstall from scratch, that means we don't need to test and > debug why upgrades break under various corner cases. Not so good for our > users however. Yup, this. It works because we support it, test it, treat bugs in the upgrade process as critical, and take it into account in our release engineering. It's a lot of work. Red Hat has chosen not to do that work, so they don't support it. It's a tradeoff decision. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
