[rhn-users] Patching Red Hat servers

[West, Brian]

West, Brian wrote:
> but when it comes time to patch the production system how do I patch
it
> to match the test system ?
>   
If the process of testing systems before the patches are applied to 
production, just downloading all the patches on all systems and let them

sit on the local disks of all servers without applying them to the 
production boxes until they're ready to be patched. Keeping the 
production in sync with test could be done with a simple bash script 
comparing the output of "rpm -qa" and installing the new RPM's from the 
local disk.

Okay, this may be workable. However, several weeks may go by while
testing. In the meantime, all systems are happily downloading patches
and keeping them locally. In some cases there may be more than one
revision. When it comes time to patch production we only apply same as
test. 

Could get a bit messy in maintaining this but I guess you are saying
that for less than 10 servers this is manageable ?

Is the Management Module of any benefit in this scenario ?
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