On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Sam Drinkard wrote:
My server has not yet been updated with all the goodies and is still a stock 4.2 installation. What is the consensus about remote updating? Would it be better if I were to physically be there and do it or are things stable enough that I could do it remotely and then reboot. It's kind of a PITA to have to go downtown to the C0-LO site, but can be done.
Nothing beats a local staging server with 'unusual' hardware to test on. That said, the Centos build team roll security updates at once, and test non-security updates before release (successfully dodging the current NFS issues with PNAELV 4, U 3 carry), come to mind.
If the server is slimmed down, hardened systematically, and fairly mainline hardware, I consider it safe enough to update on the fly. The COLUG server is updated that way
- Russ Herrold