Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> said: > I would really like to point out a couple of things that goes with ANY > 3rd party repository and people who use them should remember EVERY > time they do a yum update:
Really, enterprise system admins shouldn't just be running "yum update" and expecting everything to work. I run "yum update" and say "n" to get a list of all packages (because "yum list updates" doesn't show changed dependencies) and see what will be applied. Anything "critical" gets a check (e.g. when Nagios was in the list recently, I check the version number; it was more than a point release, so I checked the changelog and visited the Nagios website to see if I needed to take any action). This isn't anything new; I did the same type of checking on other OSes (reading DEC's OSF/1^W^W^WTru64 patch kit release notes was a "fun" afternoon). This is especially true for packages from ANY volunteer repository, but is also worth noting for paid-vendor supplied packages (Red Hat isn't perfect either). -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
