On 11/18/05, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been some suggestions that a different distro such as Debian, > Ubuntu, or RHES might be better suited to these particular needs. I hear > what these commentators are saying. It's just that those distros all leave > me working in a environment in which I'm not really comfortable. I'm really > trying to come up with a way that I can keep Arch up to date on a series of > production servers in terms of bug fixes and security patches while not > pushing the update envelope too far so as to possibly introduce new > unexpected problems.
Well, one thing that I know some people do is to manage your own repos - you can create a repo like so: [myrepo] Server = http://192.168.1.250/myrepo/blah/ And from here, you can manage "myrepo" simply by copying the required packages there from current/extra (and running gensync) after sufficient testing - yes it's a little bit of work, but not all that bad considering you have a personal machine to test on. If you remove all other repos except this one from pacman.conf, you now have a precisely controlled environment to manage your servers from. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
