[consulting] managing many sites

[puregin]

This is a totally different approach, but for those of us living in  
the Linux
world, perhaps packaging Drupal builds as RPMs (or Debian packages)
would be an option.

This would allow periodic updates on modern systems via yum or
equivalent.   This would handle packaging, signing, pre-install
and post-install actions, etc. asynchronously.  There's still the
problem of outdated modules, but that's going to be an issue with
any approach.  One could specify not to upgrade if a specific
module is too old...

This might also make initial installation easier for people...

Cheers, Djun

On 12-Dec-2005, at 11:18 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:

>> Generally, I would say that this is not terribly easy.  One thing  
>> that
>> I am really impressed with in the world of updates is the way that
>> Firefox periodically checks for updates and then downloads the
>> necessary files and patches itself.  The same system works for
>
> Sure thing. We could RSS the core updates, maybe sprinkle with  
> crypo, that's something the horde of Drupal developers could easily  
> tackle. There is a minor glitch though: Apache is rarely configured  
> in a way so that in can write the PHP scripts it runs...
>
> Regards
>
> NK
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