18.5.2011 10:20, Rafał Radecki kirjoitti: > Hi all. > > I have a new LAN to administer, I have 8 Debian production servers > which have been configured by someone else. > I try to make a reasonable update/upgrade policy for those servers. > Till now (for my home servers) I used aptitude update/upgrade and it > was ok. But here every server has many services (Oracje, JBoss, VMWare > 2 Server, ...) and I think that now I should be more careful. > > Should upgrades/updates be made automatically or manually? What > additional steps could be made? When should be dist-upgrade made? One > one site I have read that Debian's policy is to use stable versions > and only add security updates... what do you think? Be VERY cautious with those Oracle & VMWare if you think about dist-upgrade. At least VMware will break. There is a 3rd party patch to compile Vmware modules with a newer kernel. I think there is no need to upgrade to squeeze for the VMware box anyway. -- You will feel hungry again in another hour.
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