On Wed, 27 May 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
My goal is to provide a central location showing updates that need to be
applied to various servers (similar to RHN, but
without the remote control ability). My thought was to have yum auto update
everything except some critical packages we
use (we roll our own distribution as well), but on a weekly basis push a list
of updates that have not been completed
into a mysql database. That table would then spit out the data onto a
dynamically generated page. Am I going about this
the wrong way? I spent some time researching centralized yum administration
similiar to RHN, but found nothing cohesive.
I agree about nothing cohesive. If time was ample and I wasn't doing other
things I think I would do something like:
1. have a cron job which spits the list of things this machine needs to
update via func to a 'update monitor' service
2. have that data be stored in a db and be accessible via a website.
3. be able to say on the 'update monitor' machine "tell the following
systems (via func) to update themselves with the following updates + deps"
4. as always, profit...
Have you looked into func, yet?
-sv
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