Re: CentOS 6, yum-updatesd

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Vreme: 12/14/2011 05:58 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx piše:
> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> Vreme: 12/14/2011 04:07 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx piše:
>>> Back in the Fedora docs I found on a google, it mentions that in FC6,
>>> the preferred tool for updates was the "new" yum-updatesd. Anyone know:
>>> a) what theological reason upstream had to drop it altogether, and b)
>>> what's the recommended replacement - is it yum-cron?
>>>
>>> I hand-update some servers, and of course users' workstations, but some
>>> system, like home directory servers and backup servers are extremely
>>> unlikely to break with an autoupdate, so this is of immediate interest.
>>
>> There is the whole thread on the RepoForge mailing list with so caled
>> solutions:
>>
>> http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/022592.html
>
> Oy, as they say, vey.
>
> And I worked on Spacewalk in early '09. AAARRRRGHGHGHGHHGHGHHHH!!!! It
> went from .3 to .4 while I was trying to implement it, and I think it hit
> .5 as I left that contract. It was a nightmare to install and configure; I
> had to tune the free Oracle version to use almost all available memory (it
> had a max of 1G for the free version), and on, and on.
>
> Sounds as though I might want to roll out something like
> 5 1 * * * yum -y update
>
>          mark

Someone offered to recompiled it. I would if I had time. Maybe if 
nothing shows up in next few weeks..

But then again those needing automatic updates like to keep their 
systems third-party free...

-- 

Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your
trusty Spiderman...
StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
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