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Re: Mass update deployment strategy



On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:37:42PM +0100, mario wrote:

> i am responsible for 10 (ubuntu and debian) installations so far.
> I have installed apticron which informs me about updates frequently. 
> Actually, its that often that i sometimes need to invest 1h a day just
> doing updates.

  Given the choice I'd much prefer identical distributions, even
 with a little pain.  Since things differ between Ubuntu & Debian
 (and Redhat/SuSE/etc).  Having two or more security update schedules
 and two lots of testing is more painful.

> Do you have a strategy or anything to automate this task a little more?

  cfengine.

  I'm interested in puppet, but it wasn't (isn't yet?) stable at
 the time I started automation on a decent sized farm.

Steve
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