[CentOS] Multiple system updates

[Johnny Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 06:38 -0400, Peter Arremann wrote:
> This is a question for you guys out there that have a bunch of similar 
> configured systems out there... How do you handle your updates? I do not mean 
> the technical level, but from the logistics. No updates? Just run yum by cron 
> and grab the latest of the web and trust the developers that it works? Deploy 
> only certain packages automatically (i.e. omit kernel updates)? run your own 
> yum/apt/up2date/whatever repos? 
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Peter.

I create a local mirror for CentOS-3.x and CentOS4.x.

Being that I am a CentOS-4 developer, I just run yum upgrades nightly on
most of my CentOS-4.x servers (Since I test the upgrades before they get
pushed) against the local mirror.

On my Oracle servers (they are still CentOS-3.x and are extremely
mission critical), I run the nightly yum updates on a test machine
(where I also test the nightly oracle backups can be imported) ... and
make sure nothing is broken, then update the other machines manually
against the local mirror.
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