firmware update funnies on PE1950

[Robin Bowes]

On 06/11/09 17:28, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
> On 2009-11-06 17:10, Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Downloading code from those sites is a PITA. I have to navigate my way
>> through the site to the appropriate page just to check if there is any
>> update available. If there is, I need to examine the link to get a URL
>> that I can use with wget on the server I'm updating. I then have to
>> download the firmware bundle and and run it to upgrade. And that's just
>> for one server. If I want to upgrade several identical servers, I need
>> to distribute the firmware update to each server.
> 
> Have you tried the SUU?

No, I haven't. But I suspect the same logic applies. I don't really want
to have to loopback mount an iso image on all my 70 servers.

yum is the standard mechanism to deploy updates on RH-flavour systems, I
have the infrastructure in place to support it and I'd much prefer to
use it over any other non-standard method.

Is there a problem keeping the repo up-to-date? Surely, that's a fairly
trivial task compared with developing and managing the fixes in the
first place?

R.