Am 12.09.2009 um 00:59 schrieb Marden Marshall:


On Sep 11, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Michal Bielicki wrote:


Am 11.09.2009 um 23:51 schrieb Marden Marshall:


On Sep 11, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Martin Steinmann wrote:



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Scott (BL60:9D30)
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:21 PM
To: Christopher Coleman
Cc: sipX developers
Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] 4.0.2 breaks yum

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 15:09 -0500, Christopher Coleman wrote:
For me, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 from DVD and installed
sipx using the repo. yum update has worked just fine for me
throughout
4.0.1. I rand yum update today and it found 4.0.2 and I had it
install.

So far I've found it replaced all my .repo files with one and only
one
named sipeces.repo which includes my other repos, BUT has me looking
for software updates for CentOS 5.2 (hard coded into urls) I also
found it removed my /etc/redhat-release file which contained CentOS
5.3 (Final).

Whats up with that?!?

If true, those are bugs.


It is true. Here is what yum says:
Installing:
sipxecs-release                            i386
4.0.2-009184016420 sipxecs-stable 3.6 k
 replacing  centos-release.i386 10:5-3.el5.centos.1


How did we end up with this? Cannot remember any discussions around a
sipxecs-release RPM that removes repo files.
--martin


This is not a bug, it is done by design.  Our software is only
certified to work with CentOS 5.2. Any attempt to upgrade to a newer
release leaves the user exposed to possible OS incompatibilities and
service interruptions. They are of course free to override / hack the
repo configurations and live dangerously.  If something breaks as a
result, don't come crying...

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Exposure to security bugs and known OS flaws is preferred ? Sounds somewhat counter productive to me, a bit as if you would state that you know better than the distribution authors what works and what doesn't which I tend to doubt in.


Ask yourself one simple question; What is more important, to have the latest and greatest versions of Firefox, Gimp, etc. or to have a thoroughly tested and reliable PBX system? If the answer is "a thoroughly tested and reliable PBX system", then you will stay with our OS recommendations and use CentOS 5.2. Better yet, pay for a commercial license and as a supported customer you will also be provide with ongoing security updates for the supplied OS.




The answer is "thoroughly tested and reliable PBX system on a thoroughly tested and reliable Platform". Probably thats why I am again at porting sipXecs to Solaris. But back to the Linux theme, I tend to believe that RedHat knows what they are doing in regards to upgrades and recommended fixes and have some trust in their QA, as I have into the one of sipXecs (although we still test quit thoroughly before we even try to show it to a potential customer). Recommending to users to stick with 5.2 is like recommending to customers to stick to 4.0.1 instead of updating to 4.0.2. But I leave you to your opinion and will just patch the rpms for my installations.

My final 2c EUR



Michal Bielicki
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