Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On May 23, 2008, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> A whopping total of 4 lines more than running yum update. You are going >> to have a hard time persuading most people that this is "too difficult", >> even for a really inexperienced sysadmin - especially since the >> procedure is documented. >> >>> Managed package repositories are all about >>> leverage. >> No, they are about convenience. > > while far from taking sides I'd like to note that version bumps that have a > tendency of being incompatible is quite inconvenient. building missing > components from scratch/by hand precludes change in patch management etc. > Some can afford it - others can't. If you run "yum update" and get your > kernel updated and not your DRBD you can find yourself in an unplesant > situation at some point especially if you run N servers and only fraction of > them are DRBD-enabled. Except this isn't an issue. In RHEL/CentOS, kernels remain compatible. I've not updated DRBD since 8.0.8, and the last 4 kernel updates "just worked" with the old module. All it takes is symlinking drbd.ko to a weak-updates directory. Gordan