On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 04:09, Rick Graves wrote: > The reality out there > is that some administrators deal with the security > patch problem by never applying them. (Try telling > them they must maintain their own mirror!) Its true...thats the norm for many sysadmins, but then maintaining a mirror would be a necessity for many due to bandwidth reasons. Linux is increasingly being deployed in developing countries and bandwidth is real scarce here. I believe that a mirroring program, separate from yum is a must...it may even be deployed with a central repository with dual interface, one for all available patches and second for ones approved after testing. I believe sourceforge hosts a mirror creating program for apt...no reason there should be none for yum. In fact, I was planning to try out apt simply for the reason that mirroring programs/howtos are in greater availability for apt...though I like yum very much. Simply because some admins would not be willing to deploy mirrors locally is no reason not to create the resource. Many sys-admins dont implement much of security either...no reason we should do the same. IAC, local mirrors, for large/medium networks would take a load off already overloaded public mirrors. With best regards. Sanjay.
