On 26/1/2013 7:42 πμ, Les Mikesell wrote:
If you find a 100% reliable solution, please post it.
I suggest very carefully selecting particular packages (and groups thereof) from whatever repos (or from individual experienced users' efforts), testing them thoroughly on test systems (usually a set of VMs) and/or building your own packages based on selected/modified SRPMs (according to your own requirements), then defining your own enterprise repo(s) for internal use.
Why not use other distro(s) with more recent packages? Because I have tried them and I only find RHEL / CentOS a truly Enterprise System. At least it suits me. :-)
There is no such thing as a 100% reliable system if you don't do things right. You can easily screw (in terms of security and reliability) your Vanilla RHEL/CentOS with one wrong setting, even using your safe repos.
Nick