Noam Rathaus wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have some experience with handling a few desktops (Linux based)
installed with Debian in regard to updates... How do you manage them? i.e. do
you use crontab to make them all do dist-upgrade? etc..
I don't have experience with *multiple* desktops but
I do have a cron job which automatically updates the index files and
downloads the packages but doesn't install them. I could make it install
them as well if I liked:
/usr/bin/apt-get --quiet update;
/usr/bin/apt-get --quiet --yes --download-only upgrade
there is also package cron-apt which does the same.
If you trust the automatic updates then this is possibly all you need.
If you are concerned about bandwidth then maybe you can make the cache
of one of the machines available to the rest to pull from.
But if you want to have more control over what's updated then I think
what I'd do is to:
1. have the above apt-get commands to automatically download upgrades.
2. Go through the updates with aptitude(8) and decide their fate.
3. Use dpkg --get-selections | ssh other-machines "dpkg --set-selection"
This way you'll have exactly the same set of selections on all machines,
and you control what gets upgraded.
--Amos
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