Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:49 -0500 From: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Package management on many hosts Message-ID: <20070131204849.GL95758@it.ca>
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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? 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. Thanks. -- Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> Operations / Abuse / Whatever it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
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