yum auto update

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:09 -0700, Frank Liu wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have two major issues (system won't boot) after the nightly yum
> auto update, caused by the "new" selinux and kernel.
> I am not blaming the team for bad QA, but I just want to know
> from the list that
> is it still a good idea to enable the nightly auto update? or is
> it better to do it manually?
> Another solution would be to have a hybrid of the two. The reason
> I wanted auto update is so I won't miss a critical security fix.
> This definitely needs to be installed in a timely manner. But
> for other non security related updates, we can wait to do it manually,
> with a scheduled window. In order for this "hybrid" to work,
> all updates need to be tagged with "security" or "non-security" related.
> or maybe tagged with "emergency" or "normal". Then the nightly
> yum update can have a flag to do "all" updates, or just "emergency/security"
> updates.
> 
> Thoughts?

you can specify exludes in /etc/yum.conf
All your other packages will be updated.

I exclude kernel in mine, and don't update it until it has been out a
little while, kernel panic etc. related to my hardware would probably be
reported on the list.