up2date in enterprise environment?

[William Hooper]

John Summerfied wrote:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>> Gerald wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have an environment with 40 servers. Whats the best way to roll out
>>> O/S
>>> and software upgrades with these requirements?
>>>
>>> 1. systems lack internet access.
>>> 2. would prefer that generally all systems maintain the same O/S and
>>> software levels.
>>
>>
>> Both would be taken care of by using a local yum repo.
>>
>
> My personal favourite (and this assumes that the box with Internet
> access has good Internet access) is to configure an Apache virtual host,
> maybe redhat.example.com, that proxies a convenient external mirror.

But you have no way of controlling what updates are released, so it
doesn't meet the third requirement.

-- 
William Hooper