Today, I saw a interessing post on the spacewalk-devel mailing list. Lines of code Spacewalk has 2,908,841 lines of code, created in estimated 843 person years. This means 843 developers are needed to rewrite Spacewalk from scratch in one year! That’s amazing. Number of bugs fixed As stated in the post, the Spacewalk-team fixed 1012 ….Read More
Month: December 2010
Important RHN Satellite 5.4 bugs has been fixed
Red Hat recently released some bugfixes for the RHN-Satellite version 5.4. They needed approx. one month to develop a fix for those serious bugs. If you upgraded to sat540 before those bugsfixes have been released you will have a crippled database. The errata provides a way how to fix it. It needs some time, but ….Read More
Pulp, what is it about it?
Thanks to Máirín’s posting I got aware of the Pulp project. What is it? I had a brief look at it, it is a Red Hat sponsored project with a similar functionality like Spacewalk and RHN Satellite. This brings me to the question: Is Pulp is intended to be a replacement of Spacewalk? It can ….Read More