Keeping packages on a large number of openSUSE servers updated

Posted by Kamil Kisiel on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Kamil Kisiel
Published on 2009-08-18T20:14:11Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 21:24 UTC
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Question for anyone out there managing a network of openSUSE machines. How do you keep track of and apply updates? I know about YaST Online Update (YOU) but it seems more geared towards keeping a single machine up to date. It doesn't seem to scale well to a larger number of machines. How do you keep your machines updated? Our network is fairly heterogenous in terms of package installation as the servers are mostly infrastructure machines with varying roles.

I know that SUSE Linux Enterprise has tools to manage updates network-wide, but updating to that is currently not an option for budget reasons.

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