[rescue] Sun announces DST patch availablity...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Dave K wrote:

>> Or is it just that sysadmins these days can't follow a 5 step
>> procedure?
>
> Think of scaling.  A 5 step interactive procedure on one system is
> easy.  Knowing that you have updated that one system is easy.  Etc.
>
> What about the poor admin stuck with many systems? After doing the
> manual procedure, how will his system configuration management tool
> know that the system has been updated?  Etc.

He will hopefully have read the 'pkgmk' man page and rolled his own
patch.

Doing something once is educational.  Doing it twice is good for
practice.  Doing it by hand everyplace is a tragedy.

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