up2date in enterprise environment?
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue May 24 14:07:14 UTC 2005
William Hooper wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
>
>>William Hooper wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Gerald wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have an environment with 40 servers. Whats the best way to roll out
>>>>O/S
>>>>and software upgrades with these requirements?
>>>>
>>>>1. systems lack internet access.
>>>>2. would prefer that generally all systems maintain the same O/S and
>>>>software levels.
>>>
>>>
>>>Both would be taken care of by using a local yum repo.
>>>
>>
>>My personal favourite (and this assumes that the box with Internet
>>access has good Internet access) is to configure an Apache virtual host,
>>maybe redhat.example.com, that proxies a convenient external mirror.
>
>
> But you have no way of controlling what updates are released, so it
> doesn't meet the third requirement.
>
the third requirement was not "what updates are released" but rather "to
which servers."
That's addressed by being selective in where one performs the updates.
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Cheers
John
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