Re: [arch-general] Pushing Updates

2008-11-05 Thread Sujith
bardo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Sujith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I maintain a few machines and a server in my office and I periodically > > update them manually ( -Syu ). > > > > Is there a way to push package updates to them ? > > Any project out there which does this ? > > Th

Re: [arch-general] Pushing Updates

2008-11-05 Thread bardo
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Sujith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I maintain a few machines and a server in my office and I periodically > update them manually ( -Syu ). > > Is there a way to push package updates to them ? > Any project out there which does this ? The tech side of the question h

Re: [arch-general] Pushing Updates

2008-11-04 Thread Daenyth Blank
You can also easily run your own repo on your lan, cache the updates there and change the pacman.conf on your slave machines to pull from that master. Also, you can mount your pacman cache over NFS or sshfs (read the wiki) and then also only have to download once.

Re: [arch-general] Pushing Updates

2008-11-04 Thread Dwight Schauer
Not exactly a push, but I have my servers "remind" me daily when there are updates available. I have a script called 00pacman-update in my /etc/cron.daily < start clip > #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/pacman -Sy --noprogressbar /usr/bin/pacman -Qu < end clip > That way I get a daily reminde