Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:07:23 -0600 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package management on many hosts Message-ID: <20070201060722.GA93283@sysmon.tcworks.net> In-Reply-To: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca> References: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca>
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Paul Chvostek wrote: > So ... on the topic of large-scale FreeBSD deployment ... > > How are people handling package version consistency in large groups of > servers? If you have a web farm with 10 hosts, plus 3 hosts in a QA > farm, and you want to make sure you're using the same version everywhere > and upgrading production to the version you tested last week in QA, do > you just do it manually, perhaps using portdowngrade on each host, or > installing binary packages built on one host? I thought that kind of thing was what ports/sysutils/cfgengine was designed to do. I have never used it but the light reading I did on cfengine after seeing it mentioned a couple of System Administration books gave me that impression. http://www.cfengine.org/ > Next, how are people dealing with portaudit info for groups of servers? > Is the old standard of a cronjob for daily `portaudit -a` results still > the best option? > > I'm putting together some tools to help with this stuff, but I'd hate to > duplicate a perfectly functional wheel. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org
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