Forwarded to the list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Managing updates for a large number of hosts running unstable/sid To: Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>
I'm not looking to do partial updates. I just need to be alerted when a package on one of the machines has a DSA filed against lt. I'm doing snapshots against sid when needed, and if a package we need has a dsa filed against it, we can make a decision when to re-snapshot and upgrade. Its more a way to keep up with the vulnerabilities. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Vi, 25 mar 11, 12:26:42, Brad Alexander wrote: > ... > > have run into problems with both of these solutions. Nessus only performs > > local security checks against stable, and all of the hosts in question > are > > running a snapshot of unstable. > ... > > What are others using for this type of checks on a large number of > servers? > > I'm not sure what you are trying to do is even doable on a machine > running unstable. > > As I understand you only want to do partial updates (for security > updates or something). I'd say you will very soon run into > Dependency Hell (tm), because the new packages will depend on newer > libraries or newer libraries will enforce upgrade of all reverse > dependencies and so on. > > This is what stable is for ;) > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic >
