On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Chris Brentano chris.brentano@jivesoftware.com wrote:
Hmm, it should be there no matter what, even if you deselect all the package groups on install. Should be at /usr/bin/yum.
You'd think that, however there seems to be a growing (or at least their users are complaining more vocally on irc) number of VPS providers using a very stripped down version of centos. They ship it without yum, which would imply that folks are not able to get basic security updates via the normal route (if at all).
While I could possibly see excluding the kernel and maybe a few other packages since it runs a custom built openvz kernel, the entire removal of yum is extreme, and seems very careless of these VPS providers.
Not only they cannot do updates. They cannot install additional packages. If the idea of having a VPS is that it is like having a Dedicated Server, the people buying those brain dead VPS are getting a very crippled system.