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Comment on Ask HN: How do you manage your *nix binary package updates? (first post. eek)

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You can do two things.

1. Mirror a yum repository plus updates. For each day create a hardlinked directory of updates named reponame.YYYYMMDD. On the hosts you wish to update sed -i to the new day in your yum repo config file and run yum -y upgrade. When you know it works, do it on the other hosts too.

2. Use a configuration management tool like Puppet.

For your sized infrastructure you probably want the first.

Already using puppet, and -yum, it's debian/ubuntu ;) (thanks though)

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