By lelizondo on

Hi, I've been using drupal for almost a year now, and I found out that I'm running 8 sites for different clients, all of them with lots and different modules..

Updating Drupal is easy, because update_status lets me know when there's a new version available, after that I just update every site I'm running for my clients, but with modules it is almost impossible to keep track of updates for more than 140 modules running on different sites, which I don't access everyday.

Some of the modules are on every site, like cck, views, pathauto, token, poorsmancron, update status, imagecache, image field, but some are on only one, like FeedAPI, FlashVideo or Embedded Media Field.. knowing when there's an update available for modules I don't use a lot is difficult.

I would like to know if anyone has a method or suggestions to keep track of the different modules updates on multiple sites.. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Luis

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psipi commented

There is one thing we've been working on .. designed to allow us to operate 1000s of drupal sites.. conceptually it's simple.. 1) keep track of the modules/sites.. 2)easily upload/update..

In reality.. it's been nearly 12months in development.. but is very powerful.

Biggest issue.. dependencies.. which seem to get more and more convulted.. and difficulty running complete test before upgrades..

Current step is to make trivial roll back..

Sounds like you may have some good sites up.. happy to share notes if you get in touch..

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lelizondo commented

Great, right now all I can think of is to have a drupal site running on localhost and install every module I used in other sites and then create a node for every client with the modules installed but probably this is not the best solution.

Luis

Luis

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psipi commented

We can now demonstrate a really functional system that will template any site, content, modules, themes and allow you to roll it out again within minutes.. the upgrading it can also do fairly easily.. eg. 5.9-5.10 took c. half day coding and updated over 100 sites.

S

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lelizondo commented

Great, let me know if I can help testing...

Luis

Luis