On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Nikolaos Milas nmilas@noa.gr wrote:
No systems are identical. The sysadmins have to *study* their environment and needs and then design the proper solution on each case.
As a simple example, if there is a requirement to run OpenLDAP *as a server* on a CentOS OS, the sysadmin MUST find *how* to run the latest version (which is the only "approved" one for OpenLDAP server deployments by the OpenLDAP project). Deploying OpenLDAP using the packages available by either CentOS 5 or 6 repos is unacceptable.
Maybe. For most projects the RedHat engineers know what they are doing and second-guessing that means you have to know more than they do. Many projects release stuff that just shouldn't be run in production - and RH generally backports important fixes (and CentOS inherits them) into the version they ship as long as they don't break the previously working behavior.