Am 18.09.2012 um 06:12 schrieb Kahlil Hodgson:
On 16/09/12 22:29, Rita wrote:
we have close to 50 servers. I would like to have X11 libraries (and devel). Instead of installing them one by one on all servers, I would like to have them in a central NFS location and have my app pick them up like that. Is it possible to do this with yum/rpm ?
I've done this before on Solaris and regretted it. Worked well to start with, but turned into a World Of Pain.
It might be technically possible, if the RPMs are relocatable, or you did something cute with soft-links, but it will take a fair bit of mucking around, and will probably cause you bigger and harder to solve problems later on. Think about upgrading :-(
Might I suggest and alternative question: "How do I easily install and maintain X11 libraries on 50+ servers?".
Puppet, Chef, or Bcfg2 could do it but it will probably take you a long time to get your head around those beasts, let alone setting up the infrastructure.
A much simpler solution is ansible: http://ansible.github.com/.
that looks interesting - thanks to share it.
-- LF