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by mixmastamyk 2025 days ago
When you update often it turns out to be less work, because more gets automated and changes are smaller. This is the CI/CD proposition anyway.
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Except when the update brings some kind of massive change. RHEL 6->7, for example, was when systemd became the norm, and so right around the time our customers started upgrading, I suddenly had the hot potato dropped into my lap of needing to convert 20 years' worth of our software's init.d scripts into systemd services.
Debian, Ubuntu handled those side by side for a while, surprised RH didn’t.