On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Thomas Baquet <me@lordblackfox.net> wrote:

Hi there, While I was thinking how to deploy an ArchLinux like distribution in enterprise, I pointed that the biggest problem is the management of the updates. I though it could be interesting if there is way system like:

Master ArchLinux repos → Enterprise repositories → Users, employees

When is there an update to the master repos, the update will be done in a testing repos in the enterprise repositories; Then, administrators can verify if there is no problem for compatibility with the deployed machines, and if is okay, update the main repository of the enterprise.

So my question is: is there a mechanism to do it automatically?

What in this process could be done "automatically"? If you mean "automated", there is nothing out there right now that I know of that would enable this workflow out of the box, but it doesn't seem like something that hard or impossible to script. You'd just want to have a local mirror of the packages, do an -Sy or equivalent on a box which would give you the repos at a state in time, test that state, and then serve those versions of the databases in-house once you verified them. -Dan