On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 17:26:21 +0200 Alexander Thomas <alexander.thomas+d...@esaturnus.com> wrote:
[...] > The long story: > > We have a setup with multiple servers (running Wheezy). When booting, > the servers check whether updates are available on a master server. If > available, they are pulled in through a dist-upgrade. This > check/update needs to happen before any of the normal services are > started, to avoid the need of taking down everything and then starting > it back up after the update. [...] Wouldn't it be simpler to implement this check and update using initramfs hooks? You could bind-mount /dev, /sys and /proc to the root filesystem, chroot there and run there a script which would check for updates, apply them, if any, and exit. After that the system would just resume booting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150603190921.9c5c265a63b6a12ef039a...@domain007.com
