[wplug] up2date replacement

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at cmu.edu
Thu Jun 12 23:19:26 EDT 2003


On Thursday 12 June 2003 23:04, James O'Kane wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, John Harrold wrote:
> > i know it's not the same thing, but have you tried apt4rpm?
> >
> > i use it in our lab and it works really well.
>
> How big is your lab? I know we have a few hundred machines to manage
> at my job, and Jonathan has many many more.
>
> The up2date server allows you to push[1] updates out to clients which
> is much easier to deal with that than apt's pull method. I think it
> also allows you to keep a listing of machines, and groups and stuff.

One could emulate that with a script that runs at startup (or regular 
intervals with cron) and does an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

The free up2date port does not allow you (yet) to have a listing of 
machines and configurations (which would be pretty handy), so I don't 
see any advantages in going with that.

I'll try setting a local repository during the next week and let you 
know what happened. John, if there are any tips/tricks you learned the 
hard way, gimme a shout! :-)

-A
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