Re: RedHat /Enterprise/? I don't think so.

[Ben Russo <Ben umialumni com>]

Ed Wilts wrote:

> In the future, when planning scheduled updates, grab the packages
> without installing them.  up2date -p will do this - it throws the rpms
> into /var/spool/up2date and then a subsequent update will get them from
> there.  If you can't get to the network at all, you could at least
> manually update them from the rpms and then do an up2date -u later.
> There will undoubtably be times when the network is done, either because
> your own network is undergoing maintenance or because your ISP is
> busted.
>  
Good point.  I might have thought of this, just didn't anticipate the 
usually zippy (500Kb/s and up)
connections I get to go so slooooooow.

I did call my sales rep, and he told me that they had been getting heat 
from their
larger RHN customers.  He said that they were adding bandwidth and would 
in the future
either segregate the traffic or QOS it somehow...  It is still 
relatively slow, but is much better
now then it was yesterday.


I was speaking up here because I'm sure that many of the RedHat engineers
(the guys who really make things happen) read the lists and share 
amongst themselves
the interesting posts.  I didn't really know who my sales rep would have 
spoken to, or
whether he was just blowing smoke...

> > It's one thing when it is "Free" and it is different when it is
> > labelled "Enterprise, Advanced Server" and you pay $800/year for it.
> > I'm not a happy customer.
> >    
>
> They realized that yesterday.  Blocking up2date patch updates for paying
> customers was not in their plans.