--- Thomas Rampelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: > >> PXE, Anaconda and JumpStart are just parts and > >> pieces of the puzzle. > >> My point is, in an environment like that, one > would > >> *never* run `apt-get` or > >> `yum update`. That would be ad-hoc. It would take > >> all the stability and > >> reliability out of that environment. > I'm sorry but this is why people deploy their own > apt repositories ..... > in a "mission critical" environment, you wanna take > as many steps that > can go wrong out of the equation as possible. Simply > issuing an > 'apt-get' off your own repositories makes the > potential problems far > less than fiddling with finding package X, getting > it to the server, > figuring out whether the server needs dependencies > updated, getting > those packages and updating them and then finally > getting package X > installed. >
Thank you. the concept of apt/yum repositories seems to be very alien here. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
