Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Craig White wrote: >> >> puppet manifests won't expire because of changes in ruby rather because of >> changes in puppet but a startup at this point should be fine for many years >> as the path forward seems pre

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 04:35:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> If today's and >> yesterday's version of a language have to be different they were >> probably both wrong. > > Like Python2.x versus 3.x?  Or even 2.4 versus 2.6?  Plone, for one, i

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 04:35:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > If today's and > yesterday's version of a language have to be different they were > probably both wrong. Like Python2.x versus 3.x? Or even 2.4 versus 2.6? Plone, for one, is still bundling older Python due to incompatibilities wit

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Craig White wrote: > > puppet manifests won't expire because of changes in ruby rather because of > changes in puppet but a startup at this point should be fine for many years > as the path forward seems pretty well defined. Does it keep a self-contained library

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ruby seems like the only thing that might be worse than python in > terms of long-term version incompatibilities and installation > problems, although python is sort-of a special case on RH systems > since the install tools need it. I think somet

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Craig White wrote: > >> >> I'm actually very interested in this, but puppet did not look like the >> right architecture.   http://saltstack.org/ might not be quite ready >> for prime time but it looks like a very reasonable design.  The python >> dependencies are pr

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Craig White wrote: >> >>> >>> If it is possible to abstract the differences, perhaps you aren't >>> using all the new features and didn't have to upgrade after all... >> >> I suppose that if you believe tha

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Craig White wrote: > >> >> If it is possible to abstract the differences, perhaps you aren't >> using all the new features and didn't have to upgrade after all... > > I suppose that if you believe that, then you are suffering from a lack of > imagination. I ca

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Feb 7, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Craig White wrote: >> >>> For this reason it is often better to upgrade more frequently then every >>> 7-10 years. Personally I have a 5 year max lifetime for my systems. Even >>> then upgrades are painful and

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Craig White wrote: > >> For this reason it is often better to upgrade more frequently then every >> 7-10 years. Personally I have a 5 year max lifetime for my systems. Even >> then upgrades are painful and we try to stagger these so they all aren't due >> to upg

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Craig White
On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> The purpose for having enterprise software is so that you can get a >> return on your investment and use your code for 7 years (for CentOS >> versions before CentOS-4 ... now 10 years in post

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > The purpose for having enterprise software is so that you can get a > return on your investment and use your code for 7 years (for CentOS > versions before CentOS-4 ... now 10 years in post CentOS-5). But > keeping things for that period of time

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/07/2012 06:39 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 02/07/2012 07:04 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In http://goo.gl/Krjfh I read: >> >> +++ >> Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5: >> We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 02/07/2012 07:04 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi all, > > In http://goo.gl/Krjfh I read: > > +++ > Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5: > We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an > inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 >

[CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-06 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, In http://goo.gl/Krjfh I read: +++ Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5: We recommend everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 +++ Do you ever now if that advice will be up to d