On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:26, Daniel Senie wrote:
We do much with modified configurations, we just prefer to rely on redhat to port and test the bug fixes on the sendmail binaries, as the sendmail.org folks seem to release many releases, and we just don't have the bandwidth to track them and rebuild for our servers as they come up. You could make the same argument for PHP, Apache and a dozen other core application components as "things we should just package ourselves" but we might also need a bit of time in our lives to run the business, rather than building tools. This is why we pay RedHat for bug fixes on our production servers.
well, in CentOS we have centosplus and the dev/testing centos repo with some packages updated. I use php5 and recently openldap 2.3 in some servers, the first one by necesity ,the second one is for testing purposes
In talking with a RedHat person at LinuxWorld, they seemed to be getting this feedback from a lot of folks (wanting newer packages, supported, on stable versions of RHEL). Sounded like they were open to the idea, if not sure how they'd actually implement such.
maybe like ubuntu, that have a backport repository that backport newer packages from the upstream/testing releases. the apt system will manage very well the configuration problems to minimize the downtime of a critical server for a newer version and newer configuration. In FC4 and FC5 finally redhat have a clean system to upgrade from a release to another without pain. Maybe this can be the path too.
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