[Gllug] Linux support options

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Mon Feb 27 16:25:31 UTC 2006


( maybe drifting OT here... )

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> On a side note, can I just urge you not to use redhat's satellite. I
> know redhat have done good stuff for linux, but they really dropped the
> ball with this one. It's poor with no permissioning structure and an API
> that shows how much of a mess the internals must be. Plus it's just a
> gui that makes it inconvenient to update your kickstart files. This is
> just IMHO!

Depending on what level of manageability you need for each machine, you 
could use other similar, open source options - in most cases, they work 
against the stock up2date and therefore dont create any support issues 
with RH.

Dag's latest Yam package supports this sort of functionality

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