Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread poma
On 10.12.2014 04:09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: ... > Well yeah, what with multiple versions, sources, debug, etc. I just > pull down the part of the tree I need. I currently do things like: > > screen rsync -auv --delete > rsync://fedora.mirrors.pair.com/linux/releases/21/Server/x86_64/os/ > /m

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-09 20:09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 07:04 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/09/2014 07:04 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-bas

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-09 19:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network-

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/09/2014 06:45 PM, Robin Laing wrote: On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network-based fedup in order to yank in all the update

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Robin Laing
On 2014-12-09 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network-based fedup in order to yank in all the updates at once. I have a bunch of machines to upg

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/09/2014 06:01 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network-based fedup in order to yank in all the updates at once. I have a bunch of machines to upgrade to both the workstation and server pro

Re: Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:01:22PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Is there a single repository that I can keep rsync-ing regularly, > and use it to upgrade my machines – to both workstation and server > products – over a period of time? Yes. The separate directory trees are really an artifact of

Most efficient way to upgrade a bunch of workstations

2014-12-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
So, I read the blurb that strongly advises against doing an iso-based fedup, and strongly encouraging a network-based fedup in order to yank in all the updates at once. I have a bunch of machines to upgrade to both the workstation and server products. Having each one download everything it