Re: [suse-oracle] Re: SuSE vs RedHat with Oracle - FYI

From: Dmitry Melekhov (dm@belkam.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 05:41:48 CEST

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:41:48 +0500
From: Dmitry Melekhov <dm@belkam.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Re: SuSE vs RedHat with Oracle - FYI

    Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
    > On 2002-10-04T10:37:43,
    > Michael Rauter <rauter@ctos.de> said:
    >
    >
    >>We are planning to install SLES-7 on a customers site next week. Is the
    >>next release (SLES-8 based on UL) compatible to make an update
    >>installation over SLES-7 or do we have to install the server completely
    >>from scratch ?
    >
    >
    > No. There will be no out of the box upgrade path possible; at least that is
    > the status right now.
    >

    :-( and :-/

    > In general, OS upgrades (as opposed to updating just a few packages) in
    > production setups are difficult. I personally prefer a complete new install,
    > test the install, test the migration, migrate.

    This can be good only if you have test hardware.
    And, such migration will results in more downtime that upgrade.

    IMHO, :-/

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