[chef] Re: Re: apt_package_hold or preventing version critical packages from being upgraded


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  • Subject: [chef] Re: Re: apt_package_hold or preventing version critical packages from being upgraded
  • Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:22:49 +0100


Am 19.12.2012 um 16:44 schrieb Brad Knowles < "> >:

That way, Chef would never try to upgrade a package in the first place.

Yeah, chef is not the problem in that case. But sometimes there are more or less tons of system packages which are to be upgraded due to bug or security fixes. If you're (or a staff member) doing 'apt-get upgarde' and you're seeing about 80 packages to be upgraded, how do you manage that? Do you check every single package if it's managed by chef and maybe 'locked'? If you don't care and/or you're upgrading a version critical package by a mistake (and let apt-get upgrade do it's work), at least your next chef run will fail and you have to fix your chef role/cookbook/node version attribute for one or more packages, or downgrade the package again. And in the worst case it will upgrade and restart your database!
What's your way?

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