On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM, P J pauljflists@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree about best practices but it's nice to get direct feedback from your peers.
In general it is very, very rare for an update to break anything - after all that is the whole point of the 'enterprise' distribution and it is well tested upstream. However, it is still possible, especially if you have local apps and modifications, and it is very difficult to back out any changes the updates make so it is always best to test on a similar system before making changes on a production box where downtime would be a problem. For boxes that are internet exposed, I'd consider it more dangerous to go for long intervals with no updates than to auto-update, though.