This can be a good strategy, it just trades one set of problems for another.
Bleeding-edge packages from possibly compromised hosts, or self-hosted old versions with potential bugs, security issues, and hard-to-find documentation.
Pick your poison, unless you're Red Hat and can spend the time to backport security/bug fixes and maintain a knowledge base for your old versions.
Bleeding-edge packages from possibly compromised hosts, or self-hosted old versions with potential bugs, security issues, and hard-to-find documentation.
Pick your poison, unless you're Red Hat and can spend the time to backport security/bug fixes and maintain a knowledge base for your old versions.