On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:26, Daniel Senie wrote: > We do much with modified configurations, we just prefer to rely on > redhat to port and test the bug fixes on the sendmail binaries, as > the sendmail.org folks seem to release many releases, and we just > don't have the bandwidth to track them and rebuild for our servers as > they come up. You could make the same argument for PHP, Apache and a > dozen other core application components as "things we should just > package ourselves" but we might also need a bit of time in our lives > to run the business, rather than building tools. This is why we pay > RedHat for bug fixes on our production servers. well, in CentOS we have centosplus and the dev/testing centos repo with some packages updated. I use php5 and recently openldap 2.3 in some servers, the first one by necesity ,the second one is for testing purposes > In talking with a RedHat person at LinuxWorld, they seemed to be > getting this feedback from a lot of folks (wanting newer packages, > supported, on stable versions of RHEL). Sounded like they were open > to the idea, if not sure how they'd actually implement such. maybe like ubuntu, that have a backport repository that backport newer packages from the upstream/testing releases. the apt system will manage very well the configuration problems to minimize the downtime of a critical server for a newer version and newer configuration. In FC4 and FC5 finally redhat have a clean system to upgrade from a release to another without pain. Maybe this can be the path too. -- Black Hand Amiga Addicts