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.<div><br></div><div>On a somewhat related note, I've taken to using the desktop version of ubuntu even for servers, that way its free for ksplice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Rob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Adam Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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.)<br>
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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.<br>
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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*<br>
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