On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:32, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > 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?
Ugh. Maybe. I assume YOU just does http transactions, so if you set up a web server with the correct directory structures you might be able to make it work. Still, it'd be tricky and massively annoying. > Is there an existing HOWTO on this? What about the shops with hundeds > of Penguins? What do you do? Manually determine which patches are appropriate and put those on a shared disk. Write a script that basically does (with more error-checking, and reading in the list of packages to install from a file), and put that on the shared disk too: for i in package-foo.rpm blah.rpm bar.rpm ... ; do rpm -Uvh $i; done If you wanted you could put together a cron job to run that from each guest each night, or whatever. This all gets trickier with shared-R/O DASD, too, but that's the basic idea. Adam
