In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have now reached a count of 56 for the number of Debian > boxes under my control and keeping them in sync (with rdist and lots > of hacking) is beginning to get out of hand.
I've been doing multiple-box management for a while and eventually I realized that I really don't want them in perfect sync. I want to be able to do gradual rollouts when new packages appear. That way if something is broken, I break it on just one machine and will notice it before the rollout gets too far. What I do, then, is just to run dselect every now and then and install new packages. I test whatever I've upgraded a bit, and then I let it run. Your situation may be different -- I'm only dealing with about twenty machines, and they are mostly servers rather than workstations. The kernel is not in-place upgradable so you will need to give it some special-case handling. A postinst that does a shutdown -r is a possibility... Also, many postinst scripts are interactive; you will need to think about how to handle that. -- Shields, CrossLink. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]