On 06/04/2010 07:24 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
If you set up a big number of workstations (my pain shreshold woud probably be around 20), or if you have hard requirements that the workstations are really equal in patch level you should maybe consider a Spacewalk server:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/ http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk
I was working with spacewalk a year ago. It went from 0.4 to 0.5, and as far as I was concerned, it is just that: *not* ready for prime time.
I'd go with a cron yum -y update (don't forget the -y), or a cron rsync.
Not to mention Spacewalk requires using Oracle for your database.
Oh, that's right - they were allegedly working to allow postgresql, I think, but they required the free Oracle xe. Oh, and I don't know if they ever put in the bugfix I found, that you had to max out Oracle's mem to within 6m of the hard-coded 1G max.
I use a local repo for the 50 or so servers I maintain.
We've got close to 200, overwhelmingly CentOS
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