I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
If yum or rpm has something native built into it to do this, that would be great. If there's some scripts to simplify some tasks that works too.
I've used webmin's 'Cluster Software Package' module, and will probably fall back to it. However I don't think I get the info that yum gives regarding package grouping and what packages are part of what capabilities. Gotta query elsewhere for it. (no disrespect to webmin folks, great tool)
On Feb 7, 2008 1:14 PM, Tim Alberts talberts@msiscales.com wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
What I've done (and I'm on the lookout for a better way) is to right a script that uses ssh to run yum on each machine.
If there is a way to query yum for the list of installed packages, that might suffice. Query each computer for the list of installed packages, get the union of those lists, and install that on each machine.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with yum to know if this is possible.
Mike
Michael Semcheski ha scritto:
On Feb 7, 2008 1:14 PM, Tim Alberts talberts@msiscales.com wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
What I've done (and I'm on the lookout for a better way) is to right a script that uses ssh to run yum on each machine.
If there is a way to query yum for the list of installed packages, that might suffice. Query each computer for the list of installed packages, get the union of those lists, and install that on each machine.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with yum to know if this is possible.
Mike
I guess the best way of doing that is via kickstart
I was thinking about yum... you could do
yum list installed | tail -n +4 | awk '{ print $1 }'
but still there is some work to do. Maybe "rpm -qa" is a better way to have the list, but still, if you have to install multiple systems at once, I guess that kickstarting is the best way.
Regards
Lorenzo Quatrini
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Lorenzo Quatrini enlightened us:
Michael Semcheski ha scritto:
On Feb 7, 2008 1:14 PM, Tim Alberts talberts@msiscales.com wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
What I've done (and I'm on the lookout for a better way) is to right a script that uses ssh to run yum on each machine.
If there is a way to query yum for the list of installed packages, that might suffice. Query each computer for the list of installed packages, get the union of those lists, and install that on each machine.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with yum to know if this is possible.
Mike
I guess the best way of doing that is via kickstart
I was thinking about yum... you could do
yum list installed | tail -n +4 | awk '{ print $1 }'
but still there is some work to do. Maybe "rpm -qa" is a better way to have the list, but still, if you have to install multiple systems at once, I guess that kickstarting is the best way.
I agree, for install Kickstart is the way to go.
Post-installation, you can use configuration management tools such as puppet or cfengine to ensure (sets of) packages are installed/not installed as necessary.
Matt
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Lorenzo Quatrini enlightened us:
Michael Semcheski ha scritto:
On Feb 7, 2008 1:14 PM, Tim Alberts talberts@msiscales.com wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
What I've done (and I'm on the lookout for a better way) is to right a script that uses ssh to run yum on each machine.
If there is a way to query yum for the list of installed packages, that might suffice. Query each computer for the list of installed packages, get the union of those lists, and install that on each machine.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with yum to know if this is possible.
Mike
I guess the best way of doing that is via kickstart
I was thinking about yum... you could do
yum list installed | tail -n +4 | awk '{ print $1 }'
but still there is some work to do. Maybe "rpm -qa" is a better way to have the list, but still, if you have to install multiple systems at once, I guess that kickstarting is the best way.
I agree, for install Kickstart is the way to go.
Post-installation, you can use configuration management tools such as puppet or cfengine to ensure (sets of) packages are installed/not installed as necessary.
Matt
During install kickstart is the way to go. However, after installation it's the admins personal preference.
I personally just use a series of shell scripts that perform rpm queries and if statements in an external shell file. If the package is already installed it skips it, if not it installs it, traps errors on failures, etc. This has worked quite well for me. This tied together with ClusterSSH allows me to maintain some 500 workstations quite easily from the comfort of my Herman Miller Aeron chair.
Tim Alberts wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
If yum or rpm has something native built into it to do this, that would be great. If there's some scripts to simplify some tasks that works too.
I've used webmin's 'Cluster Software Package' module, and will probably fall back to it. However I don't think I get the info that yum gives regarding package grouping and what packages are part of what capabilities. Gotta query elsewhere for it. (no disrespect to webmin folks, great tool)
what I did was to build a meta-package that depends on the packages I want, and put it on a local yum repository. then used yum on each machine to install the meta-package or to update it (if new software needs to be added). Of course, make sure to test everything before you put it on production machines.
In fact, yum is not needed here. you can also setup a script on web server, then on each machine, a small script downloads said script and runs it.
wget $your_url/your_script.sh #/path/check_script_safety.sh chmod u+x your_script.sh ./your_script.sh
(security controls and error handling left to you...).
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:14:28AM -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems with the same packages?
If yum or rpm has something native built into it to do this, that would be great. If there's some scripts to simplify some tasks that works too.
I've used webmin's 'Cluster Software Package' module, and will probably fall back to it. However I don't think I get the info that yum gives regarding package grouping and what packages are part of what capabilities. Gotta query elsewhere for it. (no disrespect to webmin folks, great tool)
When you say 'same package configuration', do you mean you just want the same set of packages (latest versions), or that you want to specify both packages and version numbers?
I've been investigating doing both. For the former, I've written a little tool here:
http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/xsync/
that lets you assert what packages and services should and should not be installed and/or running e.g.
# Ensure some packages are removed touch /etc/xsync/rpm-remove.d/{nfs,nfslock,portmap,ypbind} # Ensure some other packages are installed, up to date, and running touch /etc/xsync/yum-install.d/{httpd,mod_perl,openssh-server} touch /etc/xsync/chkconfig-on.d/{httpd,sshd} # Check those changes look okay xsync -n # Update the system xsync
Typically you do this somewhere central, and then push out the (one or more) /etc/xsync trees to your target boxes.
Cheers, Gavin
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