> 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.
I use "mrepo" to pull patches down from RHN, I then have our own
repo's I symlink to the full repo's with just the patches I want
out there. So it looks something like this:
Mrepo pulls patches from RHN for each distro->
Creates repo for all patches from RHN->
symlink only wanted patches to custom repository->
clients machines point to custom repository
We can then just schedule a "yum -y update" to run whenever thus
applying the patches we want. Have thought about writing a presentation
or a paper on this for a while, just never found the time.
FYI, I use mrepo to sync with RHN as Cobbler currently does not
allow multiple distros on 1 server. mrepo has a nice little command
called "gensystemid" that allows you the achieve this. More on
mrepo here:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/
--
glenn - terremark worldwide
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