[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: Urgent for RedHat 8.0 customers: do not upgrade to glibc 2.3]

[Chris Cox]

iostream at attbi.com wrote:
> Remember, you can control what up2date does and does not install, in fact if you
> want, you can go to https://rhn.redhat.com and select packages manually to
> update, or do the same with the gui tool.  You can also tell the RHN tool to
> ignore specific packages.  I can see the problem with the glibc packages, but
> they did not force them to anyone.  They make sure these fixes work with their
> OS, any other packages should be tested before pushing to a production
> environment, yada.. yada...

Understood... stay insecure or mega-upgrade.. they do offer a choice.
All I'm saying is that given the money that RH has, you'd expect
them to make the mods to the packages themselves to THEIR supported
version rather than relying on the latest community (non RH) generated
update/patch against a later higher risk version.  Now, I know that
many hack RH up to the point of rpm-hell.... but I mean.. after
you've sliced and diced it to death... what's the point?  Probably
better off with a different dist IMHO.

For those used to living on the edge.. the mega-upgrades can be
tolerated.. I've got time... I can recompile, tweak, debug to get
things working again.  If not, I can always go outside the support
matrix and start managing packages on my own, realizing that
future upgrades from RH may no longer operate correctly.

But that's real hard to sell to corporate America right now.