Hi All,

The latest security issue with sudo ( 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0221 ) is making me
look at how we distribute updates with xcat.

I'd appreciate hearing how others do this to keep it timely without necessarily 
re-building the
entire fleet or needing to go into maintenance mode.

We have an osimage list and within most of those we have a set of pkgdir set:

pkgdir=/install/centos7.8/x86_64,/install/epel/7/x86_64,/install/centos-updates/7.8/x86_64

(our last maintenance window was the day before 7.9 was released. Timing was 
not excellent)


I'm wondering if it wouldn't be smarter to just have these repos instead:

/install/centos/7/x86_64
/install/epel/7/x86_64
/install/centos-updates/7/x86_64

so we don't need to change our osimage defs all the time? 

Today's security issue has created a lot more work than I'd strictly like - in 
situations like this
I'd like to be able to sync my repos, and then `xdsh yum update -y sudo` and 
leave it at that.


How does everyone else manage this?

cheers
L.
        
-- 
Lachlan Simpson

Research Technology Services

UNSW Research Technology Services
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UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
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