[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.2.4EL planning... how stable?

[Doug Simpson]

Along these lines. . .

I updated 4 servers two weeks before school started and every one of 
them got hacked right after that. . .I still don't have them all back 
working again after re-installing them. they had been running rock solid 
over a year and two of them longer than that with little to no 
upgrades.  I figured newer would be better and more secure. . . WRONG!  
I will not make that mistake again!

I DO NOT recommend automated updates at all

Doug

Rob Owens wrote:

>I currently don't use the EL branch, but I say
>stability should be its main focus.  Keep all those
>new packages out of it.  Perhaps make the newer
>packages available in another repository, in case
>anybody wants to experiment.  But I think the EL users
>need to be able to turn on automatic nightly yum
>updates without worry of breaking something.  
>
>I do nightly yum updates on my CentOS web server and
>don't have any problems.  I'd be real concerned about
>doing that with Fedora.  Dropping new packages into
>K12LTSP 4.2EL would be blurring the line too much
>between Fedora and CentOS.
>
>-Rob
>
>--- Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us>
>wrote:
>
>  
>
>>CentOS 4.4 has been released & I've started work on
>>K12LTSP 4.2.4EL.
>>
>>The question is how stable should the stable branch
>>be?
>>
>>
>>There are a half-dozen end-user applications that
>>can be updated. These
>>would be essentially back-ports from FC5 (K12LTSP
>>5.0). Does anyone
>>using K12LTSP 4.2EL have concerns about bumping up
>>to the
>>latest-and-greatest of any of these packages?
>>
>>
>>Package Name   K12LTSP 4.2.3EL version  Latest
>>version
>>------------  ------------------------ 
>>---------------------------
>>blender       2.37-2.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL    2.42-6.fc5
>>celestia      1.3.2-3.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL   1.4.1-5.fc5
>>childsplay    0.81.1-2.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL  0.83-1.fc5
>>DansGuardian  2.7.6-7.k12ltsp.0.4.0    
>>2.9.7.1-0.k12ltsp.0.5.0.0
>>gcompris      7.1.1-4.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL   7.4-13.fc5
>>inkscape      0.43-1.k12ltsp.4.2.2EL    0.44-4.fc5
>>tuxmath       0.2001.9.7-0103          
>>0.2005.10.11-0
>>
>>
>>
>>The real big question is whether or not to switch
>>from LTSP 4.1 to LTSP
>>4.2? This is not an insignificant change,
>>considering that the kernel
>>for the terminals is changed from a 2.4 kernel to a
>>2.6 kernel.
>>
>>Considering that a "stable" branch should favor
>>stability over shiny new
>>features, I am currently leaning towards leaving
>>K12LTSP 4.2.4EL with
>>the older LTSP 4.1 packages. This is largely a
>>question with upgrades,
>>so I'd like to hear from those of you currently
>>running K12LTSP 4.2.3EL.
>>Are the new features in LTSP 4.2 (largely improved
>>USB/CD/floppy
>>support) worth the risk of potentially breaking some
>>of your terminals?
>>
>>
>>-Eric
>>
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