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Re: Automated Update Tools



On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:24:50PM +0000, Richard Seabrook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Further to the emails last week, is anyone aware of any patch management 
> software which supports both Debian and Windows?
> 
> We have a fair few Debian servers now and keeping them all up to date is 
> becoming a bit of a task, even given the ease of apt.
> 
> Open source is great, but I'm guessing commercial is more likely. So far 
> I've seen PatchQuest, although I'm not sure if it's any good.
> 
So, setup cron-apt on your Debian servers, setup an internal package
repo and only place packages in it after testing.  Set the cron-apt
configs on the servers to automatically download and install anything
new they find the private repo.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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