Currently I do roll my own RPM packages and use my own CentOS repositories. We do this because we have LOTS of customizations that we do to a server before it leaves our doors. It works great and Nate's suggestion is a good one. I haven't done this yet because my time has been split in too many directions so I couldn't keep pace. The problem that I hope to address is that I have different configurations for different servers and sometimes I just want to push a package to a single client or a group of clients. I hope cfengine will let me do this. I'll report back as things progress. Eric On 11/1/06, Troy.A Johnson <troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us> wrote: > Eric, > > If your needs are few, and you can create RPM packages, you can create > a "group" package that lists everything you wish to install as > dependencies. By releasing updated versions of this "group" package (in > you own custom yum repository) you can "remotely" add packages later > on. > > If you find something off list, please let the list know. It sounds > interesting. > > Troy > > >>> "Eric Peterson" <srcfoo at gmail.com> 11/01/06 10:07 AM >>> > 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 > > > >