FC6 Nightly Yum Updates

[Don Maxwell]

On 10/30/06, William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:30 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> >
> >
> >> yum-updatesd is a new package for FC6.  Anaconda (as always) only
> >> updates previously installed packages, it doesn't add new packages
> >> (except to
> >> satisfy deps).
> >
> > This is good to know.  Maybe it should beincluded in the "Fedora Core 6
> > Common Issues" page(s) on the Fedora Project wiki -
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common
>
> Anaconda's behavior hasn't changed, it never installed new packages when
> doing an "upgrade".  It is one of the reasons a fresh install is generally
> recommended.

Consistency is a good thing and I understand the philosophy.  Granted,
being an early adopter is laden with pitfalls.   I do also agree that
this should be noted as a "Common Issue."

Hopefully, the "Bugzilla Bug 212507: yum-updatesd auto update feature
is broken" at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507
issue will also get resolved soon.  Even with now knowing to do a
manual yum install of yum-updatesd and yum-utils, updates aren't
working yet.

In the meantime, I plan to go back to launching a cron job every night
and watch for new news.