On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:49:35PM -0600, Pettit, Paul wrote: > > Michal Jaegermann > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:05:51PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: > > > Maybe yum could be modified to allow you to download the > > updates to the > > > cache without installing them > > > > Not much need for this, really. 'yum check-update' will produce not > > only a status but a list of packages if any available. Feeding that > > to a program (lftp, wget, .... ) which will retrieve those from > > suitable mirrors is not that complicated. > > Hmmm, covered this, but again that is a manual fix. What is "manual"? Wrting a script or applying updates you automatically retrieved? > The problem is when > you want to do updates automaticaly but in doing so updates come out at > times when there is no support ready (on holiday/vacation/etc) for > undocumented problems. 'man 5 crontab'. You may actually specify in which days you want cron to trigger the given action. Another option is for your update script to check a list of "banned" dates and simply exit if the current day happens to be on that list. Clearly you can combine both approaches if desired. You should not expect that a general distribution will set up such detailed administrative policies for you but this is something you can easily do yourself. Michal -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
