Keep driver store equal in about 200 remote offices

Question

Hello,
just to be sure to do the right thing.
We are migrating about 200 remote offices to oes/linux and want to keep the
driver store equal on all servers.
I will use a central server, setup the driver store there, put then all
drivers into a rpm and use zen linux management for distributing it.
After distribution in zlm I would restart the novell-idsd and everthing
should be fine.
Whenever a new driver is added, I would insert that driver at the central
server - driver store, put again everthing into a rpm, distribute it ,,,,
Should that be okay ?
Rainer

Answer 1

Rainer Brunold wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just to be sure to do the right thing.
>
> We are migrating about 200 remote offices to oes/linux and want to keep the
> driver store equal on all servers.
> I will use a central server, setup the driver store there, put then all
> drivers into a rpm and use zen linux management for distributing it.
> After distribution in zlm I would restart the novell-idsd and everthing
> should be fine.
>
> Whenever a new driver is added, I would insert that driver at the central
> server - driver store, put again everthing into a rpm, distribute it ,,,,
An RPM is probably not the best method for distributing the content of
the driver store. The reason is that an RPM's contents should not
change or be subject to deletion through the standard use of software.
Drivers and other files inside the driver store will change over time as
indexes get re-written or drivers get deleted. This will cause a
verification of the RPM to fail (rpm -V <pkg.rpm).
In your case, I would recommend that you still sync drivers via rsync or
similar method and not use and RPM to distribute the drivers. That's my
opinion anyway.
Good luck.
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