[arch-general] Pushing Updates

[Sujith]

bardo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Sujith <m.sujith at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> The tech side of the question has already been covered. I'd just want
> to point out that, with arch, automatic updates are *bad*. You should
> always check in real time the package manager messages: pac{save,new}
> files can be a real problem, especially if you're running a server.
> Update notification is fine for me. You could take a look at
> alunn/alunnd... I don't think it's network-enabled, but it's a good
> starting point to hack up a solution.

Well, I update the server manually, usually on new kernel releases.
But the other machines are just basic clients and automatic package
updating would be useful.

Thanks anyway, I will probably write some simple scripts which do the job.

Sujith
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