This probably isn't quite the setup you need but we run Ubuntu here and have configured our own in house Apt repository. Every night our update script resyncs to our apt repo and pulls down new/upgraded packages. We can roll out entire software packages with no problem. We also built in a emergency feature that allows us to push out a change sooner then the normal 4am update time. We build our own packages, maintain our own apt server, and mirror the latest ubuntu dist site every night. Eric Peterson wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone uses software to perform mass software > installations. So that you can install a package on multiple machines > with a single command. > > I have serveral Xen guests and I'm hoping their is a good way to do > this. The guests are all CentOS. > > I know SuSE/Novell used Red Carpet or something like that back in the > day. I figure at worst I'll just use SSH with keys to run yum commands > on each machine, but thought maybe there was a more elegant solution > that someone here uses. > > I tried google but failed when I realised that I couldn't come up with > precise search terms. google: software install linux.... doh! Yea, I'm > not feeling very creative right now. > > Thanks, > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- ============================================== Nate Sanders nate at ima.umn.edu Associate Systems Manager (612) 624 - 4353 http://www.ima.umn.edu/ ============================================== Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota 400 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0463 ==============================================