Chris Beattie wrote:
I have a mix of CentOS 5, 6, and now 7 servers at work. There are enough of them now that it is starting to make sense for them to get updates from an internal source.
I've seen RHN Satellite in years past. It looks like it may be a way to allow Windows admins here (familiar with WSUS) to update Linux boxes. A local repo might be easier to set up, but (as with Spacewalk) it seems like we'd end up with a lot of packages we don't need. A proxy and a sufficiently-large cache might do the trick if the first Linux box to get updates populates the cache which the files the others will need, but I haven't looked into this enough to see if there's even a way that works.
How do you all keep a dozen or more Linux boxes updated?
We have over 170 servers and workstations. We use yum update for system stuff. If you really want an internal source, build a repo of your own.
I installed Spacewalk in '09. While I was doing it, it went from .3 to .4 or .5 - don't remember. For a dozen or so servers, it's *vastly* more effort to install and configure, and presumably maintain, than you would spend if you just set up an internal repo.
Thanks!
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I agree with Varleri - this is a ludicrously long and extremely pissy postscript. I probably should have joined him in *not* responding, since a) it says "may
contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law", which
you posted to a public email list, which is international in scope, and therefore a null and void statement, since it would *only* be applicable to someone who had signed an NDI, and b) you're not offering anyone here to pay for such.
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