[rhn-users] Re: rhnsd daemon update
Tsai Li Ming
mailinglist at ltsai.com
Wed Jan 19 17:57:07 UTC 2005
nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Tsai Li Ming wrote:
>
>>
>>> I'd be just as careful about expecting rhnsd to keep boxes freshly
>>> updated,
>>> when it gets stuck and/or dies randomly. And yes, I do have good and
>>> reliable backups. ;-)
>>>
>>
>> How often do RH upgrades break stuff? Any examples?
>>
>
> Major: RHEL 3 Update 3's kernel refused to boot on specific machines with a
> aacraid card and newer firmwares. RH did not fix the issue till Update 4.
>
> Minor: Update 4 update bind but there were some initial dependency
> problems, and
> caching-nameserver doesn't have config(norepace) on /etc/named.conf
>
> The point is.. having a production machine that server real data to real
> people with auto-update enabled and pointed at rhn.redhat.com is asking
> for trouble. If you have the ability to internally QA (and address) each
> patch before releasing to your proxy or Satellite (and thus, your
> production machines), then auto-update can be very handy.
>
> -n
yeah.. the caching-nameserver.. I did encounter that .. sulky.. We are
deploying our own satellite server, with some internal QA :P
Liming
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