ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 17:19:34 -0600,
>   Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The one that matters is that fedora isn't suitable for machine that need 
>> to be stable and reliable.  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.
> 
> You'd probably want the time specified as an interval to lag, rather than
> a date.

That's trivial to compute, so it doesn't need to be part of the 
application.  What I really want are reliable, repeatable updates once 
I've done one and tested on a non-critical box, and I'd also like it to 
play nice with a caching web proxy.  Using a random pick from a 
mirrorlist every run screws up both of those concepts, even if you could 
pin the timestamp of the last update you want to consider.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com