Re: Atomic Updates - do we follow traditional model or a new one?
On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 00:41 -0400, Michael Hampton wrote:
On 10/08/2014 12:26 AM, James Antill wrote:
> I would also disagree strongly that RHEL will ever follow this model. I
> would bet a huge amount of money that if customers are using the
> official trees at all then enough of them will be willing to pay for
> rhel8 after rhel9 goes live that it'll just happen.
> I'd also be willing to bet more than a few beers that if/when you
> propose to PM that "rpm-ostree upgrade" magically changes the client
> from rhel8 to rhel9 ... you will not be getting smiles and nods.
Certainly not from 8 to 9. But I'd love to be able to do this from 8.1 to 8.2 to 8.3
etc.
That's true, it's much more likely we'll be able to do just a single
rhel8 release. Although, even then, while I've never wanted/needed to
use a minor release personally, they presumably exist because of demand.