Like anything systems related the "proper way" is with a dedicated testing environment and a configuration management tool. Some pretty big companies use puppet. Some other really big companies (one of which I formerly worked for) use Spine (http://code.ticketmaster.com/index.php?page=spine)
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Rainer Duffner <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Brown schrieb: >> Hi >> >> As spacewalk is not quite there yet what are others using for patch >> management or is spacewalk 'good enough' now and will only get better >> with time ?? >> >> This would be just for patch management at the moment as cobbler is our >> provisioning tool of choice at the moment. >> >> thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > > Something like http://pakiti.sourceforge.net/ - but for RHEL5 and > derivates is badly needed, IMO. > > We don't belong to the group of "optimists" that run yum update from > cron every night and hopes that everything still works the next morning... > > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. http://www.digitalprognosis.com _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
