Runnning YUM via cron

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 1/12/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> All mirrors are broken (in the sense of badly reachable) on occasion ;)
> As it seems to me, esp. when "mega-updates" (e.g. openoffice update) are
> being pushed.

I just download it all to my hard drive and make my local filesystem
the yum mirror using the file:///local/yum/mirror syntax.

That way I can "trickle" down the updates at whatever speed the
mirrors will send it and I run yum -y upgrade on whichever software is
causing the most pain.

IE, I avoid doing a yum -y upgrade  enmasse to avoid causing "more"
problems instead of less.

Cheers =)
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