RE: Is a mirror what I want?

2015-11-24 Thread Tim Kanuka
such that my o/s patching is always working against something stable. Woe unto you that assumes their yum update on 2 different machines is the same if you don't have a mirror you control, or you don't check your /etc/yum.log. Tim Kanuka Canadian Light Source Inc. -Original Mess

sl.repo sl6x.repo question

2015-09-08 Thread Tim Kanuka
we see this behaviour. (It did trip me up when during the 6.6->6.7 upgrade because I update my machines against a local mirror that is configured somewhat differently than the scientificlinux.org repos.) Tim Kanuka Canadian Light Source Inc.

RE: What's the best way to learn RPM packaging?

2015-08-13 Thread Tim Kanuka
To all: Thank you for the links to grunt and the gurulabs presentation - I have not come across those before. Here's another toolset that I have just started exploring: https://github.com/marquiz/git-buildpackage-rpm/ http://marquiz.github.io/git-buildpackage-rpm/gbp-rpm.html The idea is to bui

SL7x MariaDB updated packages

2015-07-15 Thread Tim Kanuka
To all: I notice that the version of the various MariaDB packages in the 7x/x86_64/os/Packages/ repo are all currently 5.5.41. Would we expect any coming updated packages to MariaDB to appear in the security or fastbugs directories as appropriate, just like the former SL6x MySQL 5.1 packages did

RE: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-27 Thread Tim Kanuka
test your applications on an updated *test* environment. The only way to guarantee that your *production* environment is updated in the same way as the *test* environment is to have a mirror repo that is not changing unexpectedly. Tim Kanuka Canadian Light Source -Original Message-