On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 18:26 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
The answer is:
It depends :)
Thank you. That makes everything quite clear. ;-)
I guess my next, and hopefully last, question is "how should I prepare for this?".
I have been quite pleased with the results of turning on the automatic nightly yum update on my CentOS machines. (I do not do this on my Fedora servers.)
However, I am nervous about autoupdating during this possibly more turbulent period. I guess an announcement will go out that 4.3 is coming and I can turn off autoupdates at that time?
Looking at the dates in the CentOS 4.2 main repo, it looks like the updates occurred in three batches at 7 day intervals. But I'm not sure I can trust those dates to be a representation of what actually happened when.
Since I'm a CentOS newbie and no one else seems to be all that worried, I'm thinking that I might be making a big fuss over nothing. (And please do tell me if I am.)
I have clients that would be calling me if they have problems, but I'm not running any nuclear power plants or anything.
I would not auto update production servers during a point release ... and I build this stuff :)
However, we do auto update the centos internal servers all the time. We have never had a problem with updates.
You will notice a buzz when the upstream provider releases update 3 ... and you will have about a week from that point to turn off your servers and do manual updates.
That is want I do ...