Attended package installations don't scale further than a handful of systems. Unattended package installations scale to millions of systems.

I've installed packages on many thousands of HP-UX and Linux servers and cluster nodes as part of my day job for many years using homebrew scripts, HP's software distributor, cfengine, and more recently puppet. Normally I only get something like a 0.05% to 0.5% failure rate and that's normally due to either hardware failure or a network issue that's gone away next run. If you can't trust your systems to install a package cleanly your systems are too dirty. You should know what versions of things they are running and you should have the filesystems split so users can't fill system disks.

In reply to Re^3: RPM Download Request by 1s44c
in thread RPM Download Request by carlriz

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