Re: [ANNOUNCE] Vendor kernels unpakced

[arjan@fenrus.demon.nl]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108130920590.10511-100000@Megathlon.ESI> you wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:

>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108121607480.10511-100000@Megathlon.ESI> you wrote:
>> > On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Joseph Andrew Knapka wrote:
>>
>> >> Marco Colombo wrote:
>>
>> > I trust Red Hat in that 2.2.19-6.2.7 (or whatever) is better than
>> > 2.2.19-6.2.1.  Systems are simply too complex for me to believe I
>>
>> Well, while I recommend updating kernels when vendors release them, reading
>> the releasenotes that go with them and deciding, based on that, if you want
>> to upgrade....

> This means that:

> 1 - you perfectly understand what every single vendor patch did in the
>    old kernel, and you understand what the new patches do in the new
>    kernel;

Well actually I hope I do because I put those patches there in the case of
the Red Hat kernel. And for the people who don't want to read the patches
(which is indeed more than 99% of the people) I also write CHANGELOGS for
the errata releases. I _do_ expect sensible sysadmins to read those,
especially the security ones, and see if the update applies to them.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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