On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Sven Kieske svenkieske@gmail.com wrote:
On 09.07.2014 19:14, Les Mikesell wrote:
I've been looking for a sane way to get repeatable updates out of yum forever (i.e. update production to match your last QA update after testing is complete
You really want to implement a config management solution for this. Pick one: ansible, cfengine, chef, puppet, saltstack etc. etc..
So you are saying that the system does not have its own sane way to manage packages?
The problem with these is that they add an additional layer of complexity and don't do what I specifically want done - which is to reverse-engineer the updated package revisions after testing is completed and repeat updates to those same package version numbers modulo any differences in hardware related packages and some special cases that are our own local location specific packages. Except for saltstack, they don't seem that well designed for cross-platform environments and even there windows seems like an afterthought - and it seems sort of fragile the way things can break if you update clients ahead of the server.