On 6/3/10 8:27 PM, "Zhihao Lou" <lzh1984 at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear List, > > I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations running CentOS > 5. Does anybody knows how to keep the packages in sync among > workstations? Ideally I want any change made on any machine be able to > applied to all other machines. Alternatively, to "push" the changes > (add and/or remove packages) from one central server to all other > machine is also fine. > > Thanks > > Zhihao Lou > > P.S.: Sorry for the confusion subject line. I really don't know what's > the accurate name for the feature I described here. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos My recommendation is use a configuration management system like puppet (http://www.puppetlabs.com/) or slack (http://code.google.com/p/slack/) using a role that runs yum with the change list needed for the machines in the field. This gets you the ability to have uniform configurations and "push" from a central server. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239