Chris Weisiger wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:57, Enoch West wrote:
>>
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>>
>>> I wanted to get some feedback to see what other people here use to
>>> manage their CentOS systems, apply updates, roll out new software
>>> packages, update unique config files etc.
>>>
>>
Funny this topic came up now. I recently been demoing Red Hat Desktop
and RHN.
After a bit of playing around with RHN and looking at the code the the
rhn_check client I've found it to be a bit of a mess (IMHO). There are
many lines of TODO and I have even (just today) filed a bug as the more
recent clients don't even seem to work with the "Remove Package" feature
of RHN.
I cannot really see any great encouragement from buying a RHN
subscription if this is the way the client/server has been coded. If
both sides of the configuration we completely open-source I wouldn't
have a problem with it as I know the changes / bug fixes even one files
would be available to all, but as long as Redhat keeps control of RHN I
don't think I will be paying for the subscription.
Back to the point has anyone found / thought of implementing a kind of
Enterprise level YUM with the same sort of manageability of RHN. I
looked at it myself but felt it would involve too much of a rewrite to
the YUM clients to do.
Does YUM even support any kind of authentication HTTP or FTP?
I believe a companion Management Server type solution would be a great
sister project to go along with Centos. At least that's my opinion
Lee
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