[WBEL-users] Wondering about RedHat

[Alex Georgiev]

John Hinton wrote:

> I have been running RedHat (non-graphical apache/mail/bind/mysql server 
> setups) since version 5.1 or so. I've done up2date for years and only 
> ever had one issue where suddenly mysql could not be run from an 
> offserver client. All in all, pretty minor considering the number of 
> updates over the years. My whole reason for staying with RedHat was this 
> track record. Yes, I could be more of a tech head and 'research' ever 
> package before installing, but gee, I just don't seem to have the time 
> to do that.
> 
> That was then... this is now....
> 
> So, we do the updates and suddenly bind is totally broken, I'm getting 
> those makewhatis errors via cron and email... It seems that the quality 
> control has badly degraded. How on earth can you send something out that 
> breaks bind?
> 
> So, I'm left wondering if their 'new' business model is creating some 
> 'holes'. Perhaps Fedora Core is not in fact really feeding a good 
> product over the the EL section? This is just all interesting to wonder 
> about. What has changed and why are they suddenly now putting out so 
> many bad packages

agree, if I knew that I would not move from debian to rhel.
I have not updated to U3, cos I am afraid to do so.