Upgrades driving me crazy....

[Michael Pawlowsky]

On 2009-11-11, at 6:45 PM, Clint Dilks wrote:
>>
> Fedora is just not a good choice in this situation, we tried running  
> Fedora in this way for a time but it just becomes unmanageable.  One  
> short term suggestion I would make is that you maintain your own  
> copies of the repositories that you use  and have clients reference  
> those rather than the public mirror so that you have some  
> flexibility as to when you must upgrade.
>
> In the Long Term I suggest that you look at moving to CentOS (still  
> using your own local repos) or some other distro that meets your  
> needs (ubuntu etc).  We moved to CentOS and we do occasionally  
> struggle with versions of software.  But if you combine creating  
> your own RPMS with some configuration management software such as  
> CFEngine this can be automated.


Thanks a lot for the answer...  I think I will start testing out  
CentOS very shortly.  :)