[mirror-admin] Run Fedora on Fedora?

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:19:06PM -0400, Chris Schanzle wrote:
> On 2009-07-21 11:01:14 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>
>> > How about using a recent version of rsync as well??? That fossil makes
>> > our script have work around the server limitations  :-(   
> On 07/22/2009 04:33 PM, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> Backpackaging rsync to RHEL isn't really productive.

Oh please, don't quote out of context. I wasn't replying to Carlos,
but to Chris. And the core question is not rsync 3.x or not, but using
fresh Fedora (which has a fresh rsync, fresh io scheduler, fresh
whatever) vs RHEL with many bandaids like a RHEL backpackage of rsync
or maybe even a custom kernel for a better io scheduler etc etc.

> Is it really not productive in this case?  Updating one package might  
> not create a maintenance nightmare.

So you consider Fedora a "maintenance nightmare"? 

> Curiosity got the better of me - I tried to rebuild current Fedora 11  
> rsync-3.0.6-0.fc11.src.rpm for CentOS 5.3 under mock.  Sorry, no 4.x  
> systems handy to test on.  It just required a tweak of popt-devel ->  
> popt in the spec.  It builds and installs fine.  Haven't actually  
> *tried* it yet though.  :-)
>
> Just consider this food for thought (or to puke -- your choice!)

I'm using rsync 3.x on RHEL since Apr 22nd and it works well (but
that's not a RHEL level QA). Still I'm moving to Fedora for the
mirrors. Is that because I wish to fall into a "maintenance
nightmare"? Actually I like Fedora's latest hard disk and filesystem
enhancements and don't want to wait until RHEL6 to benefit from
them. <crystal ball>And I'm sure a year after RHEL6 will have been out
there will be important bits in Fedora 14/15 for me to envy. Most
probably a stable brtfs which will make its way into RHEL in
RHEL7.</crystal ball>
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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