Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:58:21 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package management on many hosts Message-ID: <89265650@bsam.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca> (Paul Chvostek's message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:49 -0500") References: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca>
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:49 -0500 Paul Chvostek wrote: > 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? /usr/ports/misc/tinderbox is a very good tool to get the needed packages (perhaps with multiple portstrees, environments etc.) Then after testing you may do a "portupgrade -PP" to upgrade your server's soft. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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