I would be interrested to hear your experiences of patching different
distributions and any problems you have got into using utilities that go away
and try and update everything for you.
How do you find 'apt-get', 'Update Agent' or whatever your distribution uses
in terms of reliability. How well does it handle existing configuration files
when upgrading packages. Has your machine ever been left in an unstable state?
I choose to semi-automate the update's on RedHat boxes we run with scripts
written in-house but it can mean modifying the scripts or manually installing
a lot of packages due to the different configurations on each machine, and
when there are a lot of machines with different configurations it's obviously
very time-consuming.
I haven't used Debian for a few years although it was always my distribution
of choice for a number of years on my home machine (before apt-get), however
reliability is far more important at work and using a tool such as 'apt-get'
to automate upgrading systems seems a bit risky to me.
Also, how good do you find your distribution is when it comes to security
patches being released quickly?
Any comments?
Many thanks,
Nick.
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