Stephan,
I am very confused about one statement you make:
Systems should be reinstalled from scratch after the release though.
From my experience with RHEL (and before that, RH rom RedHat when
RedHat would distribute production binary distributions, not just
enthusiast Fedora, as well as my experience with Debian), a minor
release could be handled through the distribution update mechanism
without requiring a re-install. In the case of RHEL, a major release
(e.g., RHEL 5 to RHEL 6) could not be handled through the upgrade/update
mechanism, but a minor one (e.g., RHEL 5.5 to RHEL 5.6) could be. I
have done minor release updates many times without issue, although
certain specifics must be redone with the release of a new kernel (e.g.,
rebuilding in the case of my personal workstation Virtualbox and the
Nvidia drivers so that I can use Nvidia CUDA).
Regards,
Yasha Karant
On 06/23/2011 08:43 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
Hello,
On Jun 23, 2011, at 14:48 , Jolynn Schmidt wrote:
I am interested in testing 6.1 Beta, but want to understand how hard it is to
migrate to 6.1 final when it comes out. In general I like to have a local
mirror of the repo and build from that. Is it straight forward to migrate my
mirrors from the Beta repos to the final? AKA, do I just update the URL and
re-sync?
we're doing this every time: cp -al 6rolling 6.1; rsync ...
The cp -al is very cheap and minimizes the cost of the rsync.
Systems should be reinstalled from scratch after the release though.
Regards,
Stephan
