[rhn-users] Patching Red Hat servers

[Mitch Anderson]

West, Brian wrote:
> but when it comes time to patch the production system how do I patch it
> to match the test system ?
>   
If the process of testing systems before the patches are applied to 
production, just downloading all the patches on all systems and let them 
sit on the local disks of all servers without applying them to the 
production boxes until they're ready to be patched. Keeping the 
production in sync with test could be done with a simple bash script 
comparing the output of "rpm -qa" and installing the new RPM's from the 
local disk.