On 2014-03-26, <n...@leviacomm.net> <n...@leviacomm.net> wrote: > I am upgrading hundreds of boxes a day with only have serial access to > them. Installing from an external source would bring any server I use > to its knees (I end up using 4-5 Gbps of bandwidth during upgrades.
Sounds like an excellent reason to setup a new infrastructure with HTTP server and using the new autoinstall/autoupgrade functionality in the installer. > I assume packages will still be able to grabbed over ftp, although I > suspect I should be planning for that to go away too at some point. I don't know, but I wouldn't want to use ftp to update packages anyway, it goes so much faster over HTTP.
