[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Tue Mar 31 00:21:43 UTC 2009
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
> > I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things
> > about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with
> > JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than
> > Sun's package -> patchid + 8000 different patch management tools. pca
> > is the closest thing out there to a simple way to see what should be
> > applied to your system, but just not quite the same.
> >
>
> the new IPS package manager is okay. Doing image-updates has reasonably
> worked well too.
Haven't tried this at all... if it's "free"[1] I will. If it's a large
extra cost, I'll stick with PCA :-)
Also, do to the nature of many of the Solaris patches (which require
reboots), the LiveUpgrade feature has been a life-saver. Not as
necessary in the Linux world, but at least now I can patch my
production servers more easily without scheduling a couple hour sof
downtime. :)
Ray
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