[BlueOnyx:00372] Re: Customers unable to use mail services

[Rickard Osser]

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 00:24 +0100, Michael Stauber wrote:
> Hi Rickard,
> 
> > there might be reasons to keep BlueLinQ...
> > Even though most stuff is fine to automatically update through yum there
> > are sometime certain conditions that make it undesirable.
> >
> > Example: If you provide a third-party application built on top of
> > Sausalito that must not be updated automatically, but the rest of the
> > system can and should be.
> 
> I agree that keeping BlueLinQ doesn't hurt. 
> 
> However, I don't see PKGs delivered through BlueLinQ as a good substitute or 
> addition to YUM. With correctly build RPMs served through YUM one can update 
> whatever aspects one wants to update, while leaving those parts untouched that 
> don't need to be updated. Still, PKGs are a good way to deliver multiple RPMs 
> in one go.
> 

You're right, except for the rare cases of actually delivering an
application which mustn't be updated automatically, but the admin of the
server still need to know that it's available.

Hopefully I can present such a case within 2 months.


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Rickard Osser <rickard.osser at bluapp.com>
BluApp AB