Re: [Xen-users] gitco xen3.3 rpms for centos

[Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

great advice.

thanks jonathan.
- Brian




On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Jonathan Dye wrote:

> Grant McWilliams wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM, <jonr@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jonr@xxxxxxxxxx 
> > >> wrote:
> >    Quoting Steven Timm <timm@xxxxxxxx <mailto:timm@xxxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >        On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Brian Krusic wrote:
> >
> >            Hi all,
> >
> >            Has any one run these rpms?
> >
> >            If so, are they reliable for a production box?
> >
> >            I'm pretty conservative and usually stick with the vendor
> >            distros,  etc... but I may be missing out on some
> >            enhancements as the current  shipped version with
> >            Centos/RHEL is Xen 3.0.3.
> >
> >
> >        Don't believe everything RedHat puts in an rpm version string.
> >        The RedHat RPM says Xen 3.0.3 but inside it is really a
> >        significantly-
> >        modified xen 3.1.2. at least in version 5 update 2.
> >        That said, I have never tried the 3.3 rpms from gitco.
> >        Would also be interested to know anyone who has.
> >
> > EVERYONE's using them! I use them in production now and have had no  
> > problems that I could attribute to the rpms themselves. Note, that  
> > I only use the x86_64 rpms.
> > Grant McWilliams
> we contacted the gitco guy for his SPEC files and built our own.   
> imho, you should do the same as it's not a good meta-idea to  
> download binary-only distributions from untrusted/less-trusted  
> sources.  i mean, i'm sure that there's nothing malicious in the  
> gitco builds specifically, it's just a thought on practices.
> > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll  
> > use Windows."
> > Now they have two problems.
> nice sig
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