Chris Weisiger wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:57, Enoch West wrote:
I wanted to get some feedback to see what other people here use to manage their CentOS systems, apply updates, roll out new software packages, update unique config files etc.
Funny this topic came up now. I recently been demoing Red Hat Desktop and RHN.
After a bit of playing around with RHN and looking at the code the the rhn_check client I've found it to be a bit of a mess (IMHO). There are many lines of TODO and I have even (just today) filed a bug as the more recent clients don't even seem to work with the "Remove Package" feature of RHN.
I cannot really see any great encouragement from buying a RHN subscription if this is the way the client/server has been coded. If both sides of the configuration we completely open-source I wouldn't have a problem with it as I know the changes / bug fixes even one files would be available to all, but as long as Redhat keeps control of RHN I don't think I will be paying for the subscription.
Back to the point has anyone found / thought of implementing a kind of Enterprise level YUM with the same sort of manageability of RHN. I looked at it myself but felt it would involve too much of a rewrite to the YUM clients to do.
Does YUM even support any kind of authentication HTTP or FTP?
I believe a companion Management Server type solution would be a great sister project to go along with Centos. At least that's my opinion
Lee ----- /"Why give to one when you can give to everyone"/