Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu> writes:
> YOU (i.e., people relying on the RH stuff to do everything at once)
> may need such a thing, but it seems like you are overstating the case
> just a bit. If this project gets adopted by core developers, it would
> seem to conflict drastically with the goal of developing the core
> functionality.
Upgradability is also functionality.
> There is nothing inherently different (other than implementation
> details) about the basic procedure for upgrading the database as
> compared to upgrading user data of any sort. In each case, you need
> to go through the steps of 1) dump data to a secure place, 2) destroy
> the old stuff, 3) add new stuff, and 4) restore the old data. In the
> case of "normal" user data (home directories and such) the
> dump/restore sequence can be performed using exactly those commands or
> tar or dd or whatever.
You usually don't do that at all - the home directories and the users'
data stay just the way they are.
>
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
