Re: Keeping hosts updated

Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:32:52 +1300

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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jaco <[email protected]> >
multiple VM & baremetal systems (local & remote) for my setups; most
of them
> are Ubuntu, with a few Debian & BSD's in the mix.
>
> One of my pet peeves is keeping them updated.

Two approaches work for me :-

For a collection of Debian-like machines, 'apt-dater'
http://www.ibh.de/apt-dater/ does an excellent job, combine that with
a regular apt-get --download-only & notification and you're sorted
well.

For a collection of dissimilar machines, puppet would help, even
though it has a far wider scope it can look after package versions
just fine.

-jim

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