yum-updatesd in F8?

Alec T. Habig habig at neutrino.d.umn.edu
Fri Oct 12 21:12:51 UTC 2007


Ville Skytt? writes:
> Alec T. Habig wrote:
> > Ville Skytt? writes:
> > > Can yum-cron do download+notify only?  That's the mode I'd prefer for
> > > most setups.
> >
> > Yes.  In /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron, set
> >
> >   CHECK_ONLY=yes
> 
> That seems to result in it running "yum check-update" which AFAIK does
> not actually download the _packages_.

Oops.  And yum seems to have lost it's "--download-only" option, which
is what we could use here.

We could bring in yum-utils to use yumdownloader to drop them into the
spool directory, but that's starting to get complicated and fragile.
Hmm.

-- 
 	    Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept.
	    		    habig at neutrino.d.umn.edu
		       http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/
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