And how is one to assume the world runs on debian?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
Honestly, it would be great to show how systems can have cron'd apt-get, or yum, or up2date automatically keep systems up to date w/ the latest security patches...or not.
Running a home box that just updates is easy, but prod boxes normally can get real screwed up just applying every patch that comes along. take one simple recent change in libxml2 where an iso latin to utf conversion function kept the same signature API/ABI wise, but the behavior changed w/ non-zero numbers indicating success instead of zero. That can result in a startling array of busted apps when applied blindly...
Don't mock these poor people, lets help them join the fun...
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Re:Good Article.
Posted by: Tom M on June 07, 2005 09:32 PMHonestly, it would be great to show how systems can have cron'd apt-get, or yum, or up2date automatically keep systems up to date w/ the latest security patches...or not.
Running a home box that just updates is easy, but prod boxes normally can get real screwed up just applying every patch that comes along. take one simple recent change in libxml2 where an iso latin to utf conversion function kept the same signature API/ABI wise, but the behavior changed w/ non-zero numbers indicating success instead of zero. That can result in a startling array of busted apps when applied blindly...
Don't mock these poor people, lets help them join the fun...
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