There's no solution at the moment :-( :-( :-( I have the same problem. The situation is even worse when the machines are slightly different, and have a few different packages :-(
I have a suggestion, that I've not yet tried but I'll do soon. dftp can make a list of packages that need upgrading. You run it in one machine and download the upgrades in a specific directory from an ftp site, and install them. The other machines will have dftp started by cron. Configure it to look in that upgrade directory, so the new packages will be automatically installed. This method can work even with different packages in different machines. Problems: some packages need hand editing of some config files in /etc. This could be handled by cfengine, which can be run by the same cron job after dftp. Another problem is that I *think* dftp can only do ftp. This is a nuisance when your upgrade center doesn't have anonymous ftp. If this is really the case, I think we should ask the author of dftp to include support to use a directory instead of ftp only. Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]