On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:10 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> Santi Saez wrote:
> >>> Dear Srs,
> >>>
> >>> yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly
> >>> installed CentOS 5.2, using:
> >>>
> >>> # rpm -qa "yum*"
> >>> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5
> >>> yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5
> >>> yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1
> >>> yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos
> >>>
> >>> I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]) in the bug tracker, and more info
> >>> related to other distros like Fedora, etc.. with the same problem.
> >>>
> >>> yum-updatesd does not automatically update in CentOS 5.2, is there any
> >>> patch for this? anyone using this daemon for Yum?
> >>>
> >>> This is the configuration file:
> >>>
> >>> # grep -v "#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
> >>> [main]
> >>> run_interval = 60
> >>> updaterefresh = 60
> >>> emit_via = email
> >>> email_to = santi@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> email_from = centos@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> do_update = yes
> >>> do_download = yes
> >>> do_download_deps = yes
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2039
> >>> [2] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2592
> >>> [3] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2560
> >> yum-updatesd does not install updates, it tells you they are available.
> >>
> >> yum-cron (or a batch file you create with a 'yum -y upgrade' ) would be
> >> needed to actually upgrade the system.
> > ----
> > FWIW Johnny...on Fedora yum-updatesd does indeed automatically install
> > updates if configured as above (not the default).
>
> And it probably SHOULD work in CentOS too ... but it doesn't.
>
> We will probably look at it at some point ... but yumcron was included
> since it is currently broken.
----
I should have noted that I never could get yum-updatesd to automatically
update a system until Fedora 8. It never worked in Fedora 7.
Craig
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