Reindl Harald wrote: >>> sorry, but permanently reinstall the OS is a windows-thing >>> and especially unnaceptable if all 6 months a new version >>> is available and you have to maintain 2, 5, 10, 20 machines >> >> I don't agree - at least if one has 2 or 5 machines to deal with. >> I always do a fresh install on a new partition, >> leaving the /home partition untouched. >> (I don't think this is a "Windows thing"; >> I don't even know if it is possible under Windows.) > > you are a simple desktop-user with your stuff > in /home, if you are develop software and > integrate workflows in a system for managment > and so on /home does not interest you much I don't understand this. Do you mean you don't have a separate /home partition? Don't you get any email? (I keep my email in ~/Maildir/ on my server.) >>> a scripted dist-upgrade for 20 servers with yum takes around >>> two hours (proveable by logs) inlcuding download from local >>> repo-cache >> >> What is the script? >> It seems to me it would have to be pretty complicated. >> I certainly wouldn't trust any script I wrote to do this. > > * prepare the dist-upgrade > * test it with snapshots > * rebuild weak packages (missing unit-files, dependencie problems..) > * build up an internal repo > * have all machines ONLY this repo as source > * have all machines cloned from the same master > * have all machines exepct the repo-cache never seen external repos This illustrates the difference between us. It would take me at least 2 days to do the above, not 2 hours. And when I had done it I would have zero confidence it would work. In fact I would put money on it not working. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
