Davina,
What I like about Networker, isn't the software, it is the team around
the software. Whether they (networker developers/support) always agree
with us (the customers) or not, the one thing we can all agree on is
that they communicate with us and are not adverse to us communicating
with them.
Davina, Your clarity of thought reigns supreme! The old patching system
once explained by you, does sound like it worked fine. Although I (as
someone who came in at v7.2.1) had no idea it existed.
Mergers are wonderful, but occasionally the new person placed as the
HMFiC is from the wrong team or with a differing view. He or She merely
needs to be enlightened as to the way things "should" be. Once they have
all the facts, they will either correct it, or tell us why their way is
better.
I can promise you that I have first hand knowledge that EMC monitors
this list DAILY.
So my suggestion might be, either repost your original message below
entitled -- OPEN LETTER TO EMC/NETWORKER; Patch Release -- Then everyone
on the list who is a customer who agrees can simply reply in list, that
they agree. That or there must be some electronic Petition Website out
there where you create a petition similar to what is stated below and
then you have people log on and sign electronically forwarding the
results to EMC development.
If that doesn't work fly to EMC Corporate HQ in Hoptikin, Mass near
Boston and have a TEA PARTY of your own! <Grin>
//SIGNED//
Eddie Albert, Contractor, AFRPA CIO/IT
(703) 696-5509 or (703) 298-7737 Cell
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Davina Treiber
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:28 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] instructions to install jumbo patch 11
>
> Fazil Saiyed wrote:
>
> >What is an Jumbo Pack, some one please explain, i am close
> to upgrading
> >from networker 7.2.1 to 7.3, i will be using non Jumbo
> install, what am
> >i missing, is there addtional licencing ? what might be the
> reason for
> >Jumbo pack ?
>
> A Jumbo patch is EMC's new way of providing bugfixes -
> inconsistent with the fine way that this has been done in the
> last few years.
>
> Back in the dim and distant past Legato released versions of
> NetWorker, then released patches to go with them. This was
> always confusing because you could never be totally sure what
> patch level you were running just by looking at the GUI.
> Another source of confusion was whether or not any particular
> patch was cumulative or not. Often when there were two or
> three patches for a version it was necessary to download the
> base version plus several patches, taking longer to install
> and download.
>
> After a while Legato sensibly decided that since most patches
> were virtually a full install it would make sense to remove
> the confusion by releasing NetWorker bugfixes as as full
> installs, thus the first maintenance release of 5.5.1 was
> made. The convention was that major new functionality would
> be introduced as version x.0 or x.5, lesser new functionality
> would be introduced by incrementing the second number (e.g.
> x.1, x.2, x.6), and maintenance releases would be x.y.z with
> NO new functionality introduced, just bugfixes.
>
> Since EMC took over, these principles have been abandoned and
> darkness reigns once again. We now have new functionality
> being introduced in maintenance releases, and patches for
> maintenance releases. I don't know why this has been done -
> the previous system was perfectly workable and understandable.
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