Re: Auto-installing security updates?

[JohnS <jses27@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:30 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
> On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Lanny Marcus wrote:
> >> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
> >> cron job. update yum and then update.
> >
> > a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was  
> > broken
> > then. b) It is broken again :/ c) "yum update yum" and then "yum  
> > update"
> > the rest broke things for some people when going from 5.2 to 5.3.
> 
> Ralph,
> 
> I wonder if yum-updatesd might cache repo data separate from yum  
> cache, in which case some older incompatible cached data from the  
> previous version may still be around causing yum-updatesd to bork.
> 
> If so I think that cache will need to be manually deleted.
> 
> I'll check my desktop system when I get to work to see if my theory is  
> correct.
> 
> -Ross
---
The recent problem with having to yum clean all I have gone to the
extent of testing on a client machine. What i have done is run a cron
job for yum clean metadata whith a if then yum update. Evidently this is
not happing to everyone.

JohnStanley

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