[Gllug] Re: debian security updates

[Rich Walker]

Craig Millar <gllug at craigmillar.org> writes:
> russel and mimo: you honestly think reading debian security announcements is
> a better way to go about this? i haven't the time nor the inclination to go
> through each one and then login to all five boxes and update them, i'd rather
> the packaging system would just let me know that something, for whatever
> reason, needs updating, and then deal with anything that breaks.

Read DSA, 
add a cfengine rule specific to one box to do the upgrade, 
test the rule and the upgrade, 
make the rule apply to the other machines.

Scales a *long* way.

cheers, Rich.

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