-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: den 18 januari 2012 11:15 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers? On 01/18/2012 08:05 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>> I would like to expand on this a little. Once you get a certain >>> number of machine it probably makes sense to have your own internal >>> mirror. >> >> Is there any particular approximate number of machines you'd say this would >> apply to? > >based on personal experience, I'd say that number was at the '9' mark. >Once you go double digit, and you have those many machines in one >location, a local repo is the way to go. Perhaps then with one of them ( >either a machine or a VM instance ) doing auto nightly updates, and >running a test to make sure all is still well and sending out a small >email to the admin with a OK or 'Trouble found in updates' Thanks. Will be looking into local repos it seems. We've expanded our local calculation farm to now include mid-teen numbers, and manual updates is becoming a PITA... -- /Sorin