Received Fri 06 Feb 2004 5:18am +1100 from Deryk Barker: > I think I'm on the verge of persuading our technical people that we > should be using debian in our labs rather than RH. > > One thing that would tip the scales is if it were possible to > *completely* automate the upgrade process. > > For instance: our techies would do an update followed by an upgrade on > a central/test machine to ensure everything was OK. They would then > like to be able to run the same commands on several dozen lab machine > *without* any manual intervention (e.g. not having to answer those > questions about opackage configuration etc). > > Is this feasible/easy? Is there a better way of mirroring a debian > system to many others?
I think it is. I use wajig (which I wrote but is available from debian) for something similar. On the lab machines you can configure debconf not to ask questions and then run wajig daily-upgrade (perhaps as a cron job if you wanted it fully automated, otherwise as a script run manually from the central host), making sure the lab machines only reference the central machine (i.e., the central machine is the only one listed in /etc/apt/sources.list) which you can set up as a debian archive of just the packages you've downloaded to that central machine. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
