Posted by jeward on Wed 19 Jul 2006 at 10:26
We have currently 184 production debian servers in various states of out-of-date. We also maintain a local mirror of the i386 distribution. My goal is to develop an easy way to keep these 184 servers up to date.
One idea I'm considering is a second local respository that I update manually once a package has been tested in our production environment and deemed safe to deploy on the 184.
If the repository only contains packages we have tested, then in theory we can automatically update the 184 from this repository.
The other idea I've had is to keep the 184 pointed at a current mirror, but only update them after all packages have been tested on a production server.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
James
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