[TriLUG] debian in production

Myrhillion lug at blackwizard.net
Sat Oct 22 17:59:26 EDT 2005


Can someone explain what Greg gave as an example?

Greg Cox wrote:

>>How do you manage updates ? I mean scheduling, testing, roll back if 
>>you need to do so? I've used yum's nightly script that can 
>>auto-magically grabs updates.
>>    
>>
>
>Different Greg, but: cfengine.
>
>Staying current on what's out there:
>---------------------------------------
>shellcommands:
>    debian.Hr01.Min00_05::
>        "/usr/bin/apt-get autoclean"
>    debian.Sunday.Hr01.Min00_05::
>        "/usr/bin/apt-get update"
>---------------------------------------
>
>Then I do the 'apt-get upgrade' on a test box.
>
>Pushing out the "no really, upgrade these" is in a similar fashion
>for the piddily upgrades (e.g. mount telnet util-linux), and by hand
>for ones that need manipulating/careful watching (e.g. slapd, amd).
>
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