On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 09:49, Jef Spaleta wrote:
Don't buy rhn entitlements for beta systems...I don't think
yer going to
find any official statement from any redhat employee saying this is a
good idea. It's not a good idea...there is in fact very little value in
it. During a beta you aren't promised one single security update...one
single bugfix update...one single enhancement update.
>...or to make those
>entitlements useful and worth using while in beta test mode.
I have *NEVER* stated I bought entitlements for the beta. I purchased
them for a released version. Besides, RHN would be a great way for RH to
notify the beta testers a BUGFIX has been applied to a package. Then we
could all quickly and easily get it and test it.
Having to add myself to the CC list on every bug report in Bugzilla just
so I can stay informed of the status of a bug is time consuming, and a
poor method of passing information in my opinion.
It is useful...even with no packages. You watch the little update icon
and you wait...and wait and wait. Think of this as approximating how
rhn will handle a perfectly stable and secure linux distribution. It's
all in how you look at it.
The other thing I keep forgetting to mention is updates are only 50% of
what up2date can do. I use it all the time to add new packages to my
currently running install. It's nice, because it solves deps for me, and
I don't have to dig out the cds and figure out which cd has the package
I need. And, because it is included, I don't have to run over to Fedora
or Freshrpms and get apt or yum, and configure them for what I want.
The current "add/remove applications" program is badly broken, and is to
restrictive of what I can install. If RH had just put the rpms on the
channel, I probably never would have started this thread.
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Michael Young <betatest(a)gnucode.kicks-ass.net>