On 03/14/2016 06:36 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 03/11/2016 12:41 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi list, I know that there are automatic update with yum-cron but never
tried.
In my experiences I never did automatic backup because if update was broken
my installation will be broken and I wait some time before apply update.
Today seems to be that automatic update are used more than before.
What do you think about automatic update? It is a good practice on a
server? What is your experiences?
Thanks in advance.
Alessandro
We run an automatic yum update nightly on most of the centos
infrastructure servers.
When I managed IT for an engineering firm, for the production machines I
would never automate updates though.
I would have a test environment and run my own local mirror and only put
things onto the local mirror that passed through my test system and worked.
I sort of do that - I have a custom local repo and when something in an
update causes breakage (can't remember the last time) I google for the
problem online and find a fix and rebuild the src.rpm appending a .1 to
the end of release so it looks newer.
So I don't exclude things from CentOS or EPEL, I just add things to
it... right now all my custome repo really has in it is solitaire and a
texlive fake package that fakes out packages with require texlive (I run
vanilla texlive managed by their utility, I don't like texlive as a
zillion different RPMs)
Honestly though I haven't personally experienced a breakage as a result
of a package update in years, and when it happens it almost always is
EPEL where the maintainer did a major version bump.
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