I'm just in the process of letting YOU go to update a Linux 8.1 test system. And I have some concerns.
Monday, I couldn't get access to YOU updates. I kept timing out. I don't know if there were problems at Suse, or if some Penguin farm updated all their images at the same time and overloaded Suse. Today, while it is progressing nicely, it started to make me wonder.... How can I keep all the maintenance at the same level when the updating process might be spread over weeks or months (as testing goes into production)? New "recommended" updates goes on the site every few days, sometimes making other updates obsolete. What I'm considering is a method to put the recommended updates on a mindisk, a standalone minidisk, that as each of the Penguins come in, I can give everyone the same updates. Is this doable? I know I can do it manually (no, actually I wouldn't), but can YOU still be in control of this? Is there an existing HOWTO on this? What about the shops with hundeds of Penguins? What do you do? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
