{"id":23,"date":"2007-05-19T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cae.tntech.edu\/mwr\/2007\/05\/19\/client-os-update\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:26:19","slug":"client-os-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/2007\/05\/19\/client-os-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Client OS Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructures.org\/bootstrap\/osupdate.shtml\">Original post here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, I&#8217;m working on Debian GNU\/Linux. Everything bought new (since sometime last fall) has the current stable release (4.0r0, or &#8220;etch&#8221;) installed, and everything older has the previous stable release (3.1r6, or &#8220;sarge&#8221;). Assuming that I keep apt sources for both the primary Debian archives and their security updates, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reductivelabs.com\/trac\/puppet\/wiki\/DebianRecipies\">puppet recipe for managing apt upgrades<\/a> should keep me running.<\/p>\n<p>Things won&#8217;t get much more complicated when I bring some Ubuntu desktops into the infrastructure, since Ubuntu uses the same basic package management tools as Debian. I&#8217;ll have to read up some more on Solaris patch and upgrade management when I get ready to convert our few Solaris workstations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Original post here.) For the moment, I&#8217;m working on Debian GNU\/Linux. Everything bought new (since sometime last fall) has the current stable release (4.0r0, or &#8220;etch&#8221;) installed, and everything older has the previous stable release (3.1r6, or &#8220;sarge&#8221;). Assuming that I keep apt sources for both the primary Debian archives and their security updates, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/2007\/05\/19\/client-os-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Client OS Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-infrastructures","category-puppet","category-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}