To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:31:01 +0600
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 07:37 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'd recommend Centos for that as well...
> Maybe Ubuntu will change that, although they are too new to have much
> of a track record on updates.
What would You say on Slackware regarding all this staff?
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora ...Les Mikesell wrote: ... And, you could update a test machine and after testing, reliably update other boxes to the same versions that you tested even if new updates had gone in the repository. ... We set up our own local repository. ... That's always sounded fairly horrible to me as a workaround for something that should be really simple. ... (Fedora)
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora ... On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: ... That way you could stay almost up to date on your critical machines while watching the mail list for complaints by people with the newer changes. ... And, you could update a test machine and after testing, reliably update other boxes to the same versions that you tested even if new updates had gone in the repository. ... We set up our own local repository. ... (Fedora)
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora ...Les Mikesell wrote: ... I've always thought that a quick, easy solution to most surprises would be to let yum take a date/time option and ignore all updates after that time. ... That way you could stay almost up to date on your critical machines while watching the mail list for complaints by people with the newer changes. ... And, you could update a test machine and after testing, reliably update other boxes to the same versions that you tested even if new updates had gone in the repository. ... (Fedora)
Re: FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support ...Les Mikesell wrote: ... >>I still stand by my claim that FC4 fails... >>the intentions of the project. ... >back at the updates that made the other versions usable. ... (Fedora)
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora ...Les Mikesell wrote: ... The one that matters is that fedora isn't suitable for machine that need ...complaints by people with the newer changes. ... versions that you tested even if new updates had gone in the repository. ... (Fedora)
