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#1 2022-01-23 18:26:23
- hirnschmalz
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apt-dater alternative for Arch Linux (and other systems)
Hi there,
at the moment I'm using apt-dater to maintain a lot of my Debian based servers. It would be great if I could maintain all of my server (Debian based and Arch Linux) in one console. Does anybody know a tool that might could be used?
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#2 2022-01-23 23:55:40
- schard
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Re: apt-dater alternative for Arch Linux (and other systems)
If you're looking for an abstraction layer for different package managers, there's PackageKit. But last time I checked, the implementation for ALPM was, well..., let's say incomplete.
As for automating deployment on several servers, there are tools like Ansible.
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#3 2022-01-24 10:10:58
- hirnschmalz
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Re: apt-dater alternative for Arch Linux (and other systems)
An abstraction layer for different package managers is not really what I'm looking for, and I'm aware of tools like Ansible, Puppet or Chef. I'm interested in a simple CLI tool which shows me the package status (up to date or outdated) and info about the running kernel version (is the latest installed kernel the currently running one) of remote servers. Furthermore, it should be possible to bulk update groups of remote servers (pacman -Syu for Arch, apt-get upgrade for Debian). It should also be possible to SSH into a remote machine from within the tool.
That's how I use apt-dater at the moment for my Debian based remote servers.
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#4 2022-01-24 10:59:18
- schard
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Re: apt-dater alternative for Arch Linux (and other systems)
An abstraction layer for different package managers is not really what I'm looking for...
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Furthermore, it should be possible to bulk update groups of remote servers (pacman -Syu for Arch, apt-get upgrade for Debian).
I see a contradiction here.
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#5 2022-01-24 11:02:02
- hirnschmalz
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Re: apt-dater alternative for Arch Linux (and other systems)
hirnschmalz wrote:An abstraction layer for different package managers is not really what I'm looking for...
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Furthermore, it should be possible to bulk update groups of remote servers (pacman -Syu for Arch, apt-get upgrade for Debian).I see a contradiction here.
The solution I'm looking for of course have to implement some sort of abstraction of the different package managers.
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