[KLUG Members] Distributions and Package management

[David Bronson]

I see now that the Freshmeat article is old,

Here is one that is more recent:

http://www.distrowatch.com/article-rpm.php

DB

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 07:25:55PM -0400, adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:
> >How are folks handling package management issues? 
> 
> A pretty sweeping question,  different people place different tasks under
> "package management",  can you clarift?
> 
> >I am doing some reading, and see that Redhat is pretty poor about
> >updating packages between major releases. 
> 
> Again, quite a broad statement.  They do fine by me,  all the core packages are
> pretty current.  A "release" system will always lag somewhat behind,  but such
> is the price of stability.  I often feel that RedHat is a tad aggressive, my
> servers are pretty standard on 7.1.  I wouldn't put 7.3 on a server yet.
> 
> Non-core packages like Samba, etc... do lag behind.  But most largish site build
> these independently anyway due to site constraints.  
> 
> >What distributions and package management techniques are folks using?
> 
> I manage all the core stuff via red-carpet, yep, thats a GUI.  But it lays out 
> what dependencies are going to be very clearly, and with as a paid service it is
> fast.  No getting carpel tunnell logging into a zillion ftp servers looking for
> one stupid dependency.
> 
> Core stuff like bind, samba, and such we build from a standard spec file / src
> rpm on the box where it will actually run.
> 
> A cron job dumps "rpm -qa" to my mailbox every month,  and I tuck the message
> away just in case.  After any upgrade that requires building I just burn
> /usr/src/redhat onto a CD and send it to the vault.
> 
> And don't mention Debion/apt-get,  I might as well subscribe to M$'s automatic
> update service.  Ahhhh!
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