On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 03:52:07PM +0100, Simon George wrote:
> 2) will the recipe ("a recipe will be provided for preventing updates to
> the OS being taken from the repository") be for a specific installation
> + update mechanism? So for example will I be on my own if I use the tar
> ball or redhat's up2date rather than yum?
I bet that they will only give a solution for apt and if you use
anything else (yum,up2date,smart,whatever) you'll be on your own.
> I think the simplest solution to both these is to keep a "contrib"
> repository, into which the necessary/recommended subset of RPMs from DAG
> and their updates are replicated. This gives the opportunity to make
> them available when they have been validated with gLite. It would give a
> chance to spot non-backward compatible updates before everyone installs
> them without realising.
+1
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