Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Chris Brentano >> <chris.brentano at 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > Of course i have installed by hand....