yum installation management.

[Brian Hirt]

I guess i wasn't being really clear.   It would be something that 
individuals would run an their own infrastructure.   Hence, my original 
post is slightly off topic, because it would work with any yum setup, 
not just the use fedora legacy project.

--brian

On May 5, 2004, at 11:14 AM, seth vidal wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:07, Brian Hirt wrote:
>> Like lots of users out there, my company used to use Red Hat Network 
>> to
>> support our boxes.   One of the things i really liked about RHN was
>> that you could remotely administer a bunch of servers fairly easily
>> without having to log onto each machine to check for updates or to
>> install updates.   I'm aware that Yum and others packages can be run
>> from cron to automatically install packages.  However, if you want a
>> little bit more control over what you install and when you install
>> them, I haven't seen something out there that suits me.
>>
>> I spent some time whipping up a little system that is similar to RHN.
>> The administration is from a web page where you can  view which
>> components on your servers are out of date and request that the
>> remotely administered systems update certain packages.   Each of the
>> remotely administered systems checks in with the central database and
>> updates packages that it's been requested to update.  The administered
>> boxes also notify the central server when if finds new packages that
>> should be updated.
>>
>
> If someone wants to run that in their infrastructure that's fine but I
> don't think fedoralegacy has the machine power or human power to
> maintain something like that.
>
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