Right now, that's still one of the few things we do "by hand" on our
systems. Upgrade/patch the test system sometime during the day; then
upgrade/patch half the production one night, then upgrade/patch the
other half of production another night.
I've considered having puppet do it, but I noticed 2 problems with
that plan:
1) There doesn't seem to be any way to use the package type to run
something like "yum -y update" or "up2date -fu". I did an experiment
with "Package { ensure => latest }" and that only works for packages
already being managed (which really can't be scaled up to work for
this problem). And there's nothing like "package { '*': ensure =>
latest }" either. (it's important that this do the right thing with
kernels (install new; leave old alone) and that I can still force it
to skip some packages if I need to...
2) The schedules aren't flexible enough for our business
requirements. I really need something like "between 5:30pm and 8:00pm
on November 19, 2008" in order to match specific planned maintenance
windows for specific systems. Not just any wednesday, but only that
specific time window on that specific date.
On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:27 PM, dd-b wrote:
>
> So I seem to remember an old discussion here where people here were
> reasonably consistent in thinking they didn't want to have puppet
> update packages automatically, either through a total "yum update" or
> through individual services being set that way.
>
> What *do* you do? Say I've got 6 systems I want to keep in sync.
> Let's say I upgrade one system manually and test a bit, and then want
> to make that upgrade general. Do you do that through puppet, or what?
> >
>
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