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to: Geo
from: Tim Boyer
date: 2006-07-10 19:23:40
subject: Re: Yum Update

From: Tim Boyer 

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 23:29:26 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>news:eo60b2hs528eq9q77t1okmg6t2182onnob{at}4ax.com...
>
>> I've never done an update all at once, so I'm not sure.  It dribbles in
>with
>> the daily  up2date run.  Couple of meg a week, at a guess.
>
>Have you ever had to back out an update?
>
>I get hourly updates for my linux based barracuda box, mostly filter (spam
>and virus) updates and as you probably saw me and blalock posting a couple
>weeks ago, they are not without their problems. Because it's a fast moving
>target like spam I'm willing to deal with the issues that brings but an OS
>that is used for well.. everything, I don't think I'd be comfortable with
>that many updates. Is there a rollback mechanism that makes it easy to back
>out an update?
>
>Geo.
>

Never had to.  From what I've seen, the Red Hat Enterprise stuff is _very_
carefully vetted...
--
tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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