Published January 18th, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran
apt and getupdates
After the keynote I saw Marc Merlin’s “apt-get and getupdates” talk. Debian’s apt tool allows you to keep packages up to date on a system, but doesn’t really handle configuration files. That’s where getupdates comes in, get updates allows you to push (or pull) updates to machines. These updates consist of shell scripts to perform various actions such as installing a package or altering a configuration file. This allows getupdates to be used for altering the configuration of a machine without pushing out all new configuration files.
Getupdates also allows you to run a lead/gold configuration, allowing you to test updates on a selected group of machines (lead), then turn it into gold and release it to all machines.
Slides for this talk are available here.
Jeremy Zawodny Says
That URL 404s.
Jan 18th, 2004 at 4:53 pm
Jim O'Halloran Says
Fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Jim.
Jan 18th, 2004 at 5:08 pm
Jim O'Halloran Says
I still need to go through a lot of my stuff from Linux.Conf.Au from earlier this week and hyperlink the URL’s and make sure they work. I figured it was more important to get the stuff online first.
Jan 18th, 2004 at 5:10 pm