[wplug] up2date replacement

[Vanco, Donald]

Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> 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! :-)
	
	Yeah - I too would like to hear an update if anyone attempts this...
	I routinely pull ALL available updates to an NFS share and then have
clients to a "Freshen" against it, but this is less than elegant and still
requires manual intervention for kernels (which I'd do anyway)

Don