Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread John R Pierce
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ok, so what would you suggest is a good practice for a hosting environment with a few different RH based (CentOS & Fedora Core) servers, all doing different stuff? do you have test/staging servers for each of these production environments? without such, there's really not m

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Rudi Ahlers
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:08:06 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management To: CentOS mailing list Terry schrieb: Hello, I have been as

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Tom Brown
I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? i would say Pulp fits the bill from what you have said https://fedorahosted.org/pulp

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition, Spacewalk is the recently "opened" version of RHN > Satellite and it should be able to run with CentOS. I don't think it's > a perfect solution yet however as it still requires Oracle on the > back-end and I

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Terry schrieb: Hello, I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? I investigated this earlier. The only thing that seems halfway usable is pakiti: h

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Terry wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Terry wrote: Hello, I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Terry wrote: Our issue isn't bandwidth. Our issue is controlling which patches are to be deployed and at what time. ok, then you want option a) from my previous response. if you're the gatekeeper of all packages that go into your private repository, and if y

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Terry wrote: I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? here's a reasonably straightforward scheme: 1) make sure yum is in

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Terry
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch >> management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. >> What is everyone else doing in this arena?

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Terry wrote: Hello, I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? Set up a local repo and point all your systems to it. ___

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:08:31AM -0500, Terry wrote: > Hello, > > I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch > management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. >What is everyone else doing in this arena? For RHEL, at work we use RHN Satellite.

[CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Terry
Hello, I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists