Nick,
[patching/upgrading/stability]
> 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'm a long-time RH user (4 upwards) and only look after a few machines but
I've never had much problems with keeping installations up-to-date.
Generally speaking RH are fairly prompt with security patches though the
Janet Mirror site is sometimes a little behind.
I grab the rpms from the mirror and apply 'rpm -Fvh ...'. The hardest
thing is (or was as 7.2 uses grub as a boot loader) usually the kernel
updates (not particularly difficult task) though I tend to roll my own
from the offical tars.
Peter
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