[RndTbl] Linux patching best practices

[Robert Keizer]

On the Ubuntu systems, even the server addition I've had updates that break
my existing setup. Do it by hand if you have to update it.

On a somewhat related note, I've taken to using the desktop version of
ubuntu even for servers, that way its free for ksplice.

All the best,
Rob

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>wrote:

> For CentOS, I'm quite comfortable setting up automatic updates.  It's not
> "best practices" but I've spent a LOT less time fixing post-update problems
> than I would have spent testing each update, over the years.  (This applies
> to Red Hat in general since RH2.1.)
>
> Ubuntu... Not quite so happy.  Their updates come fast and furious
> sometimes, and the patterns I see don't inspire confidence.  That said, I
> often have automatic updates turned on for Ubuntu desktops and have only had
> one major problem in ~5yrs.
>
> I think the days of testing patches independently are gone because of
> manpower reasons, unless you're running in a high-availability environment.
>  Of course, all the HA system vendors I work with now address the problem by
> *never* patching or upgrading - one telecommunications vendor runs CentOS 4
> (4.1 IIRC), with no plans to upgrade or apply *any* patches.  Their answer:
> the systems shouldn't be reachable from the Internet anyway.  *sighhhh*
>
> -Adam
>
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