Glenn Bailey wrote: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
The above limitation, I believe, is going away in a future version of yum_rhn_plugin, where you will be able to pass in a system id through the environment variables. reposync is much less of a hack than mrepo. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
