[rhelv6-list] 6.4 anyone?

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list]

On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:38 AM, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list"
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> To take it one step further, I would like to see an announcement go out on the lists a week in advance so that we know it is coming.
> A couple of times now I have had maintenance scheduled on my production servers with everything prepared the night before and then found 100+ extra packages ready for install the next morning due to a new release. Could there not be a prior announcement made stating the time frame when the repositories will be updated with the current release. It would also prevent us from scheduling upgrades during that period and therefore help them out a bit with any load issues during the repository synchronization.

Cale, if you don't want to pay for Satellite to handle this situation, I recommend you set up mrepo and generate your own yum repos.  Your production hosts would update from your internal yum repos instead of directly from RHN.  This would allow you to rely on the yum updates being stable during your update schedule and not rely directly on RHN.

Just my 2 cents.

/Brian/