Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 patching

Tue Mar 8 14:15:59 UTC 2011

How is that any different than Red Hat releasing a new ISO?  If you are running RHEL 5.5 and want to "cumulatively" update your system you could update it against RHEL 5.6.  The benefit of installing updates as they come out is that you significantly mitigate vulnerabilities against your system regularly as opposed to that once a quarter or semi-annual update. 

The only con I see with CentOS is that the updates are always behind Red Hat by a few weeks to even months.  Even longer when an ISO is released. And mixing and matching with Redhat (despite some people insisting on it) to me is a bad idea because you could then really get into an RPM hell trying to keep systems synchronized.

Paul M. Whitney
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"Can't is the cancer of happen." - Charlie Sheen

On Mar 08, 2011, at 08:08 AM, Matty Sarro <msarro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly with red hat you have the option of red hat, run satellites, or bust.
> You could use the cent OS repository bit you'd lose your support for the
> system.
>
> Tbh in enterprise installs red hat updates have been a nightmare. There
> aren't roll ups, and there's no way to tell YUM to only update to a certain
> point in time. You will need to be online at least once to get the gpg key
> from the redhat repo or else you can't even manually download and install
> the rpms.
>
> Solaris handles updates better, I agree. Popping in a 10/9 dvd is way easier
> than running YUM on a test server, tee-ing the output to a log, manually
> finding each of the packages on red hats website, and then trying to get a
> prod server online just to get their stupid gpg key so I can run YUM to
> install the downloads. Running rpm works but you get tons of dependency
> errors, and forcing the install seems to jack up the system.
> On Mar 8, 2011 4:10 AM, "Dean Thompson" <dnt07 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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