Runnning YUM via cron

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 1/11/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> It's only a matter of time until you will be hit by bugs.

I'm sorry, I don't buy it.  The Fedora Project's distribution works
swimmingly well out of the box running the nightly update service.  If
you choose to run against non-Fedora Project respositories, that has
*nothing* to do with yum's nightly update service being problematic.

> And if not these, you are very likely to be hit by inconsistent
> repositories some time some where - Most likely, packages containing
> shared libraries having changed SONAMEs.

Sure, if you download software from non-Fedora Project respositories. 
This has nothing to do with running yum automatically each night to
install *Fedora Core patches*.  This has to do with your desire to be
"bleeding edge" and automatically installing *non-vendor supplied
software*.

[cbell at circe yum.repos.d]$ pwd && ls -l
/etc/yum.repos.d
total 48
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1123 Jun  3  2005 fedora-devel.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  312 Jun  3  2005 fedora-extras-devel.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  299 Jun  3  2005 fedora-extras.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  294 Jun  3  2005 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  330 Jun  3  2005 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  337 Jun  3  2005 fedora-updates-testing.repo
[cbell at circe yum.repos.d]$

Nice and boring, safe, 5-9s of confidence that I'll never see an issue.

> If I were you, I'd very carefully examine my logs. I could bet you will
> find several updates having failed for different reasons.

434 packages updated since installation, zero failures.

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Chris

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