[CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

Fri Jun 4 14:24:17 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

> 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.

     mark