apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager
apt-dater provides an ncurses frontend for managing package updates on a large number of remote hosts using SSH. It supports Debian-based managed hosts as well as rug (e.g. openSUSE) and yum (e.g. CentOS) based systems.
Features:
keep dozens up to hundrets of (GNU/Linux) hosts up to date
generic apt-dater-host protocol to manage different package managers
filter hosts by Tcl expressions
multi instance capable
spawn ssh-agent on startup (optional)
run multiple connections in parallel using screen
no root login required, use sudo to call package manager (optional)
record any screen activities during install/upgrade/connect for traceability(optional)
export host informations to XML for automatic processing
upgrade hosts part of clusters one after another
host informations collected:
LSB informations (distri, codename, version)
installed, upgradable, broken, extra and hold back packages
identify physical/virtual machines
kernel version and check if the most recent kernel is running
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http://www.ibh.de/apt-dater/