> Why not create a local "up2date" server on your LAN that will only hold > the packages you want your machines to have. I'm assuming you want them > all to be the same, correct. Then set up2date to update automatically > from the 'up2date' local server. Very little outgoing network traffic > and you control the packages/versions. Seems good to me. > > I'm not sure how to set up an "up2date/yum/apt-get" server but maybe > someone else has some experience. I was thinking about creating a central apt-get server. You don't think it will be too messy to install RPMs for every change I want to make? For example, lets say that I simply wanted to add a single Perl script to /usr/bin, for example. I would have to create an RPM package for that single Perl script. Do this even matter? Chris