[Linux-HA] Hostname & ignore error question

[Rob Morin]

Can i use the Sid package for my Etch installation?

What you mentioned is very cool,  i told my manager about it and he said 
he will consider it. It would be a nice project to start....

:)

Thanks again for your help!

Rob Morin
Dido Internet Inc.
Montreal,Canada
http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444



Peter Clapham wrote:
> We similarly use Debian on site. To overcome the problem we have found 
> that maintaining a local debian mirror (with standard debian packages) 
> and then use debarchiver to maintain our own repository which allows 
> us to backport the current release of heartbeat and place this in our 
> package archive for use as required.
>
> As described by Tim Cutts in the Beowulf list recently (16/4/08) this 
> linked with cfengine means we can role out or specify packages to be 
> upgraded or installed at install time, particularly when linked in 
> with FAI or other automated installation procedure (very useful (tm) 
> :-) ).
>
> The good news is that there are plenty of useful tools to assist here, 
> you're not just stuck with the current debian package offering :-). 
> Oh... and Simon Horms has been v. helpful in providing Debian ports 
> and a useful place to start if you need to create Sarge backports is 
> here :
>
> http://www.ultramonkey.org/download/heartbeat/
>
> then modify the debian/rules etc as required
>
> Enjoy
> Pete
>
>
>
>
> Rob Morin wrote:
>> Yes, i agree, i shal discuss this issue with my manager and refer him 
>> to several email  postings on this list....
>>
>> thanks again for everybodie's your help....
>>
>> Rob Morin
>> Dido Internet Inc.
>> Montreal,Canada
>> http://www.dido.ca
>> 514-990-4444
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rob Morin <rob at dido.ca> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Thanks for the reply Dejan....
>>>>
>>>>  Our company has a policy to use Debian apt-get packages only, to my
>>>> knowledge what i am running is the latest available for AMD64 in 
>>>> apt-get i
>>>> know its not the latest.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I understand such policies (even if I may not agree with them), but
>>> companies also need to understand that it usually prevents the
>>> community from supporting them in a meaningful way.
>>>
>>> If you need support for ancient (seriously, 2.0.7 is extremely old)
>>> versions, then you need to contact the distribution that is keeping
>>> you on that version.
>>>
>>> We'll help if we can, but there's only so much we can do once you hit
>>> a problem that we've already fixed 2 years ago and you won't upgrade.
>>> That and re-diagnosing old bugs is a waste of valuable resources.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not picking on you specifically, its just something that comes up
>>> occasionally.
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