automatic nightly updates

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon Apr 25 21:46:57 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:02 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> I was under the impression that the nightly yum-cron job was shipping
> disabled.  I see it may be enabled in FC4 which I highly disagree
> with,
> but unfortunately it may be too late to stop the change.  That doesn't
> mean we have to eat that change.  When we take in FC4, we can urge
> people to disable automatic updates and again warm them why they can
> be
> bad.  Our user base is quite a bit different from the average user
> base
> of Fedora, so our users have different needs.  Whats good enough for
> Fedora isn't allways good enough for Fedora Legacy.

Ah HAH!  I was correct.  Yum nightly updates are NOT enabled by default
in Fedora.  It is purely opt-in, as it should be.  I knew sanity would
prevail!  (I don't think there was any attempt to enable it, just some
misinformation)

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