From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 1 06:44:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5ED16A401 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:44:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from sysmon.tcworks.net (sysmon.tcworks.net [65.66.76.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE43D13C442 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:44:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from sysmon.tcworks.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sysmon.tcworks.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1167NF2033456; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:07:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: (from lambert@localhost) by sysmon.tcworks.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l1167Nqa033455; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:07:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sysmon.tcworks.net: lambert set sender to lambert@lambertfam.org using -f Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:07:23 -0600 From: Scott Lambert To: Paul Chvostek Message-ID: <20070201060722.GA93283@sysmon.tcworks.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Chvostek , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package management on many hosts X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:44:50 -0000 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