Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 28 07:46:36 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:32 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> I'd not use FC on a server.
>
> I maintain several machines, some running Debian, a couple run FC3.
>
> I maintain the software remotely - where remotely varies from across the
> LAN to via dialup Internet.
>
> apt-get works well and I run it nightly in a cron job to download from a
> local mirror. It's easy to configure apt-get to use a particular mirror,
> and the initial configuration is done at install time.
>
> I've not discovered a good way to make yum download "hands off." I
> _could_ make it download and install, but that's not my style. I like to
> control when updates go in.
>
> By default, yum uses a selection of mirrors in convenient locations such
> as .fi. .il and goodness knows where else. I'm in Australia, and there
> are few locations further away than those.
It's very easy to make yum use a local mirror. I do this both at home at
at work. Just point each repo at your local mirror using the "baseurl"
directive in your yum repository configuration instead of using the
default mirrorlist.
> I see an enormous volume of updates for FC. I've not checked on what
> they fix, but I suspect they're mostly not security-related.
I think most are usability improvements for the desktop, and probably
not really needed on servers.
> I'd not like such a volatile selection of software on my server, I'd be
> perpetually worried that something will break, and if a server breaks
> then the whole enterprise (school in my case) is affected.
Yes, for example there was a recent util-linux update that
"broke" (though there was a workaround that could be used) client-side
NFS mounts to older servers, though an updated update was released the
day after.
> If you want a Red Hat-based solution then look at the free download
> versions of RH's Enterprise Linux. I have not used one, but I might. I
> have been downloading the source updates, and they're relatively few as
> compared with FC.
Agreed. Centos looks a good bet.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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