Alexander Bokovoy via FreeIPA-users wrote:

On ke, 13 maalis 2019, Christopher Lamb via FreeIPA-users wrote:

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Thanks, but that documentation is inconsistent.                                                                                                             Section 8.1.1 advises upgrading one version of RedHat IDM at a time. Fair     dos.                                                                                                                                                        However section 8.1.2 advises running "yum update ipa-*" which will update    to the latest version of IPA available in the repo, which may well be a       jump of several IPA versions.                                                                                                                               Despite lots of googling, I have not found anything mapping RHEL releases     to IPA releases (a support matrix). The release pages on the FreeIPA.org      site do generally mention a target Fedora version. e.g.                       [1]https://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.2.0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2...                                                                                  If the expert advice is to update IDM by updating the underlying RHEL one     version at at time, then maybe the update should be performed via             something like:                                                                                                                                            "yum --releasever=7.3 update"

Something like that, yep. Could you please open a bug for RHEL on the documentation, describing your concerns with this? I'll then make sure it is treated by the documentation team.

IMHO there is nothing to do here. I'm sure somewhere on the OEL support pages it says that all packages must be up-to-date. I'd swear I've read then same on the RHEL side.

It boils down to the fact that with thousands of packages there is no way to support every possible version combination, especially between two versions released three years apart.

rob

As to mapping of the releases, I have a plan to make something like that with connection to what API is provided by each release. I have ways to generate that automatically and hope to find some time relatively soon to work on that.