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An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.

  • Max-PEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    I don’t know, I’ve worked in Debian/Ubuntu companies mostly. Last two had thousands of servers and both had an apt-mirror custom repo including the deb-src ones. Otherwise we just get ourselves banned from the official mirrors when thousands of VMs pull updates from the same NAT IP.

    Not sure how that works exactly on the RHEL side, maybe it’s not nearly as easy or common to do that.

    • @RIotingPacifistEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      TBF i was a contractor so i was almost exclusively working for disfuncional companies.

      IIRC If you pay RHEL money it’s pretty easy to do with Satellite, otherwise you had to JerryRig Spacewalk to do the same thing, but it’s been a while and i never actually set up Satellite as the enterprise companies I’d worked for were cheap.