On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:25, Alan Sparks wrote: > Does anyone know of any projects to "semi-automate" network Yum > updates? I mean "semi" in terms of approvals. > > I have local rsyncs of updates, as well as my own local repositories. > I'd like to automate Yum updates across the network, but I'd like to not > have the updates applied unless they are "approved" first. > > I'd like to see a means where the headers are not seen by the machines > unless some manual intervention occurs. Optimally, I'd like to create > groups of machines (production, development, test) and be able to > release the files to the population in a controlled fashion. > > I suppose it could be done by separating the rsync repositories from my > "live" ones, and moving/symlinking and yum-arch'ing the "approved" > updates to the "live" repositories. Just wondering if anyone knew of > better ways. yum-arch takes a -x to exclude things. you could implement it that way. but you'd be best off maintaining two repos, one as final, one as testing, then using a cgi as your baseurl. it could redirect cleanly to the right one. -sv
