esteemed slackers,

I've been looking for a tool or an idea (a concept) on how to keep some
Slackware systems (+20) automagicaly up-to-date but didn't find any.

Does any of you have any experience on this field?

Thank you,
Miguel

Miguel Santinho wrote:
> esteemed slackers,
>
> I've been looking for a tool or an idea (a concept) on how to keep some
> Slackware systems (+20) automagicaly up-to-date but didn't find any.
>
> Does any of you have any experience on this field?

You could use a third party package management tool and run it as a
cron job; I personally wouldn't do that, but it's an option.

You could download all patches to a shared directory and set cron on
each machine to 'upgradepkg /shared_directory/*.tgz' every day.

If I remember correctly, someone on ##slackware (freenode) has written
an rsync script to do what you want - you might consider checking on
that...

RW

Hi Miguel,
On Fri, 27 May 2005 02:20:23 +0100, Miguel Santinho <msantinho@simplicidade.com> wrote:
>
>I've been looking for a tool or an idea (a concept) on how to keep some
>Slackware systems (+20) automagicaly up-to-date but didn't find any.

Please define "up-to-date" in your context: +20 secure, reliable
machines, or +20 bleeding edge, perhaps partially broken machines?

While what I do is different, the firewall stays on 2.4 latest hotfix
(2.4.30-hf2) for now, other machines don't matter so much, 2.6.11.10
and some -current. 2.6.11.11 stable series should be out very soon.

Which version slack, which version kernel?

--Grant

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Miguel Santinho wrote:
> esteemed slackers,
>
> I've been looking for a tool or an idea (a concept) on how to keep some
> Slackware systems (+20) automagicaly up-to-date but didn't find any.
>
> Does any of you have any experience on this field?

you can use swaret, with or without dependency checking (I suggest you
to turn it off for security updates). Type something like this:

swaret --install -ap

- --
Stefano Stabellini

stefano[AT]stabellini.net - http://www.stabellini.net

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Stefano Stabellini <stefano@stabellini.net> trolled:

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> Miguel Santinho wrote:
>> esteemed slackers,
>>
>> I've been looking for a tool or an idea (a concept) on how to keep some
>> Slackware systems (+20) automagicaly up-to-date but didn't find any.
>>
>> Does any of you have any experience on this field?
>
> you can use swaret, with or without dependency checking (I suggest you
> to turn it off for security updates). Type something like this:
>
> swaret --install -ap
>
> - --
> Stefano Stabellini
>
> stefano[AT]stabellini.net - http://www.stabellini.net
>
> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
> there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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