Using yum to update production servers

[Mike McGrath]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of STYMA, 
> ROBERT E (ROBERT)
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: RE: Using yum to update production servers
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > But I do have a few servers that run as postgresql and
> > mysql databases will yum wipe my database if it decides or see an 
> > update for
> > > 
> > > mysql or postgres
> > 
> I believe with the syntax
> 
> exclude=mysql* postgres*
> 
> in the /etc/yum.conf file, you can tell
> yum not to update these packages.  There may be a better way 
> to do this.
> 
> Bob Styma
> 

On a side note really you shouldn't have yum auto update stuff on your
production servers, its not good practice.  Not to mention that some
updates, (like kernel updates for example) won't take effect until a
reboot.  Just my two cents.

	-Mike