[CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> On 06/04/2010 07:24 AM, m.roth at 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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