Tim Alberts wrote:
I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package
configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm
queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better
way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems
with the same packages?
If yum or rpm has something native built into it to do this, that
would be great. If there's some scripts to simplify some tasks that
works too.
I've used webmin's 'Cluster Software Package' module, and will
probably fall back to it. However I don't think I get the info that
yum gives regarding package grouping and what packages are part of
what capabilities. Gotta query elsewhere for it. (no disrespect to
webmin folks, great tool)
what I did was to build a meta-package that depends on the packages I
want, and put it on a local yum repository. then used yum on each
machine to install the meta-package or to update it (if new software
needs to be added). Of course, make sure to test everything before you
put it on production machines.
In fact, yum is not needed here. you can also setup a script on web
server, then on each machine, a small script downloads said script and
runs it.
wget $your_url/your_script.sh
#/path/check_script_safety.sh
chmod u+x your_script.sh
./your_script.sh
(security controls and error handling left to you...).
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