[arch-general] Pushing Updates

[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

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#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/pacman -Sy --noprogressbar
/usr/bin/pacman -Qu
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That way I get a daily reminder via email of what updates are available.

Looking at the pacman options again though I think I'm going to change the
first pacman options,
  from:
     "-Sy --noprogressbar"
  to
     "-Syuw --noconfirm --noprogressbar"  # sync and download, but don't do
the actual update

I know that is not a push, but it does save you some time and you get
reminded where there are waiting packages.


You could script a push via ssh.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Sujith <m.sujith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sujith
> --
> http://sujith-m.blogspot.com
>
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