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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:08:06 +0200
From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: centralized patch management
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Terry schrieb:
Hello,
I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch
management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel.
What is everyone else doing in this arena?
I investigated this earlier.
The only thing that seems halfway usable is pakiti:
http://pakiti.sourceforge.net/
People who think that running "yum update" every night is a solution
should go back and do some research.
This is how it might work at home (mostly), but not the way you deploy
patches to a large number of systems who serve different purposes and
thus have different package-selections, user-requirements,
patch-policies and downtime-schemas etc.pp.
I hope to be able to test pakiti soon.
cheers,
Rainer
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Ok, so what would you suggest is a good practice for a hosting
environment with a few different RH based (CentOS & Fedora Core)
servers, all doing different stuff?
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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