Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes
In article <[🔎] 9701071709.AA20901@tera.ma.ic.ac.uk>,
Arrigo Triulzi <a.triulzi@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have now reached a count of 56 for the number of Debian
> boxes under my control and keeping them in sync (with rdist and lots
> of hacking) is beginning to get out of hand.
I've been doing multiple-box management for a while and eventually
I realized that I really don't want them in perfect sync. I want to
be able to do gradual rollouts when new packages appear. That way if
something is broken, I break it on just one machine and will notice it
before the rollout gets too far.
What I do, then, is just to run dselect every now and then and install
new packages. I test whatever I've upgraded a bit, and then I let it run.
Your situation may be different -- I'm only dealing with about twenty
machines, and they are mostly servers rather than workstations.
The kernel is not in-place upgradable so you will need to give it
some special-case handling. A postinst that does a shutdown -r is
a possibility...
Also, many postinst scripts are interactive; you will need to think
about how to handle that.
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