Runnning YUM via cron

[Kam Leo]

On 1/11/06, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Chris
>

You're lucky. The last two releases of xorg-x11 have caused X-windows
to fail on my system. Each time I have had to reinstall the older
version.  It doesn't take much time to perform but it is a pain in the
behind.