non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 22:48:45 UTC 2008


On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Bjørn Tore Sund <bjorn.sund at it.uib.no> wrote:
>>Are you pulling updated from the internet or are
>>you pulling from a local cache of "tested" updates.
>
> I have often wished we had the manpower to do the latter.  Unfortunately, we
> don't, so the local mirror is exactly that, a mirror.  One thing this
> incident has taught us is to take regular backups of that mirror so that we
> can roll back to a non-suspect version of the Fedora updates.  Didn't have
> that before, really missed it the last couple of weeks.

The cheap way is to start the mirror script manually, as opposed to on a time.

So first thing the morning, check the internets for possible issues,
if non found. Start the script.

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