On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:37 -0500, Jonathan Manton wrote: > Hi. I maintain a network of ~80 FC7 machines. The machines are a > mix of hardware types, but (ideally) have identical packages > installed. However, often a machine will deviate from the ideal for > a variety of reasons (e.g., it was offline when the user requested > the package). I would like to be able to specify the packages to be > installed in a central location, and have packages install/uninstall > when this list changes. > > > My primary use case is when I have a user request a package be > installed on all the workstations, typically something that is > already in the Fedora "everything" repository. I don't install > everything by default, but there are additions that are made > periodically. Right now I have scripts to ssh into each machine and > do the install. But this breaks down when there is a machine offline > for some reason (e.g., turned off and waiting for a Dell service rep > to stop by). > > > There is a Debian package called pkgsync (http://packages.debian.org/ > unstable/admin/pkgsync) that appears to do this for apt/dpkg. > Pkgsync appears to allow an admin to maintain a list of "must have", > "may have", and "may not have" packages, and have the installed > packages on a given client periodically synchronize to this list. > But I have found nothing similar for yum. > > > I know there are tools such as cfengine and puppet that could do this > for me. But they have a steep learning curve, and if possible I'd > rather find a simpler way to do this. > seems like you'd be best off using a yum shell script and putting two files in place on a web server or some such: then you could do: wget file yum -y shell file the file's contents would be like: install foo bar baz quux remove bad1 bad2 bad3 really_bad-1.1-1 run put that in a nightly cron job and then you just update that file whenever. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
