explanation of yum.cron + a little frustration.

[Paul Howarth]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I don't see any reason to treat yum any differently
>>>from the other entries in /etc/cron.daily , like logrotate and tetex.
>>
>>Neither of these provide a convenient way to disable/reenable the cron
>>job whilst retaining all other functionality. Many people don't want yum
>>to run from cron but do want to retain yum functionality for manual
>>operations. I really don't see a problem with the way this works
> 
> 
> I don't follow your reasoning.
> Personally, I either want to run "yum update" nightly,
> in which case I would like an entry in /etc/cron.daily/ ,
> or I want to run "yum update" manually,
> in which case I don't want an entry in /etc/cron.daily/ .
> 
> It's not the sort of thing I would want to switch on and off very often.

Agreed. This could be done by creating a subpackage for yum called 
yum-cron, which would contain the cron job only, and have a dependency 
on yum. So if you wanted automatic updates, you'd do "yum install 
yum-cron". But is it really worth creating such a package when there's a 
perfectly working arrangement as-is?

Paul.