Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:28, Bill Hudacek wrote: > >> Fedora Core and Yum is a great system for automatically updating your >> system. but only when you can trust it. This is the first time it's >> really and truly failed me - and it's been a disaster. > > If that is the first thing you have had break in a fedora > update, consider yourself lucky. It is the nature of that > distribution to push new development to users as quickly as > possible - and realistically, if they didn't, things never > would be tested and fixed. It is usually worth the trouble > to get up to date desktop apps which are still developing > new features, but you probably want to run important services > on something more stable like CentOS. >
I hear you, and I may contemplate switching. This is only at my house, but once you have regular backups running, you tend to miss them when they stop. As I said, this is the first time I've seen such a foolish use of something as powerful as Yum. I still maintain that if there are that many changes, or there are changes of such import that they ***break*** existing environments, they should be included in a major release, not pushed to users at night! When I upgrade to FC-5, or maybe FC-6, then I would be happy to research it by putting it on a sandbox and finding that one needs to completely review in all its gory detail the documentation for a package as complex as Samba. Bug-fixes, and minor enhancements, are by design appropriate for such communications channels. This should have never gone into FC-4. </rant> /bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
