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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Subject: Re: Any plans to upgrade from RHEL 4?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100815190403.GB7080@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100815185745.GB26993@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

Hi -

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:57:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> [...]
> I agree that we need to upgrade but it really would be nice to move to
> a new system at that time too.

Yeah, if only...

> I wonder if we could get some kind organization to donate new hardware.
> That would make the switchover much easier.

Yeah, or else a multi-day extended downtime, with a robust
backup/snapshot of the root partitions so we can undo any
experimentation safely.

We could live-upgrade server3 to use it as a guinea-pig, for it runs
no essential services right now.  I'd advise RHEL5 or even 6 (beta, or
we could wait a little more) as opposed to Fedora, since the latter
not only permits but forces regular OS upgrades.  I'd rather not touch
the guts of the machine again for a few years after the next change.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-15 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-15 18:49 Gerald Pfeifer
2010-08-15 18:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-08-15 19:04   ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2010-08-15 19:12     ` Christopher Faylor

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