On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > For new installs I would prefer the RPMs installed be the latest > versions (for security purposes) vs. the original ones that came with > the distro. Plus installing the originals then upgrading (via yum) will > cause the builds to take longer too. I manage a large number of machines > and need all the security and time savings I can get. :) You're talking a trivial amount of time (typically ballpark of a minute, depending on how many updates there are) and it isn't "your time" -- the whole process is automated so all you do is initiate the kickstart and do something else until the machine reboots itself, fully patched, post install. Exactly the same amount of your time, but a whole lot easier and with no script magic besides yum itself. And besides, installs are typically install once, use a long time. So I suppose it might be worth it, but it isn't worth it to us even in a beowulf cluster environment with truly LARGE numbers of machines. Too easy to break something, because updates are NOT just a matter of slotting in replacement RPMs. That's what yum is FOR -- it resolves a whole lot of problems before they become problems, sometimes by just refusing to function. And anyway, the first nightly update the time is going to be spent anyway, equally unattended in both cases. A string gets no shorter moving its pieces around. rgb > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Satish Balay [mailto:balay@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:17 PM > To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified > Subject: RE: [Yum] Maintaining yum repositories > > > > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nielsen, Steve wrote: > > > So the basic steps would be: > > rsync down the updates > > merge udpates into distro <--- here > > rebuild the hdlist > > Why bother with this merge and weeding out the old versions? Why > not just let yum pick up the latest versions? > > Satish > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
