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Managing Updates Across Multiple Arch Based Systems (lemm.ee)
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Greetings everyone,

So I have been pondering on how to accomplish something;

I have multiple Arch based systems, and I want to try to manage updates on all of them so they are all on the same version. So I was wondering how anyone may go about doing this?

One thought was that I could host my own Arch repo, where I have a server that pre-builds all of the packages I want to be installed across my systems. However, each machine has different hardware, so I would have to build driver packages such as Nvidia related packages for one machine, etc.

How do you handle managing updates across multiple Arch machines?

Thank you!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't use Arch for that

You most likely want something RHEL like since dnf seems to be the best at keeping consistency in my experience. Combine that with Ansible and you are golden.

Other option is bootable containers but that's a fairly new technology that isn't well tested yet. You could do either a Fedora or Alan Linux bootable container.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I mean, I'm not going to reinstall a new OS on all of my machines.

I'm comfortable with Arch, and am looking to find a way to keep my current systems in parity.

I do appreciate the suggestions for sure!