Atomic Updates - do we follow traditional model or a new one?

[James Antill]

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.