[SAC] Timeline for updating the OSGeo VMs?
Markus Neteler
neteler at osgeo.org
Sun Nov 17 13:37:45 PST 2013
Frank,
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
...
> The webextra VM is hopefully not too hard, but we do need to be a bit
> careful with Trac
right!
> since I assume we are not running the stock Trac.
ops, hope that got documented.
> The www.osgeo.org machine running ancient RHEL won't be upgraded, but
> hopefully it will soon be replaced with a new web VM at OSU OSL.
Looking forward to that since it will also free up money allocated to
the renting of the old server.
...
>> I actually do security fixes (manually) on all machines regularly
>> (those I know at least).
>
> Ah, cool. It might be nice to document this procedure in the wiki with a
> brief note on when it was last done, so that others could also assist.
I do that for years in race condition with Martin Spott :-)
So it is more effort for me documenting each time the update in the
Wiki rather than just doing it.
> Do you have a sense of how frequently we ought to be doing this? Weekly?
> Monthly?
I have my friendly apticron report which kindly sends me an email in
case of updates coming in. Upon that I perform the update accordingly.
Likewise Martin AFAIK.
Best
Markus
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