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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Gentoo Linux is great at everything but
it's especially nice for dev environments. There is no "repo
madness;" if you want to carry some really unusual combinations of
things or use highly arcane packages (to include apps that you
yourself create), you can institutionalize an overlay and the
whole systems acts as though your app is simply part of the
repository.<br>
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On 5/11/15 10:05 AM, leam hall wrote:<br>
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<div>Ah, I've seen those sorts of developer induced cesspools.
Sorry to hear, pardner. What's worse is that you'll get
blamed for any security event using an unpatched vector. <br>
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Personally, I'd ensure your security manager is in the loop.
They may be able to give you some weight in pushing for either
full patching or dumping that software. <br>
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<div>We have a number of vendors who require
exact versions. We have several products that
support exactly RHEL 6.2, down to specifying
certain packages that can’t be patched from
the version on the original media. We run
RHEL on the production server, and CentOS on
the test and dev servers, and keep them at the
same patch level. (Anything that doesn’t have
weird vendor requirements goes on SLES).
Also, we have a bureaucratic and fairly rigid
change control process, so upgrading to the
latest release (or even applying patches) to
many things is a huge ordeal. - this applies
to most production systems that have a large
user base. Luckily, I can usually get away
with updating sshd and apache with only one
meeting. A “zypper up” or “yum update”
requires much more red tape in most cases -
depending on who owns the system, if it is
high profile, etc…</div>
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<div>Allen Beddingfield</div>
<div>Systems Engineer</div>
<div>The University of Alabama</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>leam
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Atlanta
Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday,
May 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Atlanta
Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re:
[ale] CentOS repositories question<br>
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current?</p>
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