[Gllug] BIND 9.2 - 'mix and match'

John Hearns jhearns at freesolutions.net
Wed Jul 9 09:19:10 UTC 2003


> I would mostly disagree with this.
>
> Package management is the absolute key to a maintainable system.  I manage
> a datacentre of 170 servers, can you imagine manually compiling every
> single thing on all of those nodes?  More importantly, can you imagine
> keeping that many servers up to date with all the latest versions?
>

Agree very much.

Also look at tools like LCFG for managing configurations of machines.

And a quick plug for Paul Nasrat's talk on Saturday, which is on RPM based
package
management tools.


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