Re: Red Hat: To patch or to upgrade?

On 01/04/03 14:05 +0100, Andy Wild wrote: <snip>
> I was wondering what the general feeling was amongst other subscribers to
If the system is stable under the load you put on it, just use the redhat patches (and patch self compiled software as relevant).

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> - Upgrade the Red Hat box to 7.3 or 8.0, and then update with the errata
I personally run RH 7.3 for the stability factor. About half the software I run is from RPM and the other half is compiled from source. I update the RPMs to current as required by RPM. and source likewise. (I run postfix snapshots/postgresql official source/courier-imapd and quite a few things that RedHat doesn't ship and of course, custom kernels).
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> Although it shouldn't be as important since security is the main concern, is
You can go about it either way. Just make sure you stay patched to the highest level of patching you can(for bug fixes, not features).

Devdas Bhagat Received on Fri Apr 4 13:59:37 2003