[Bug 244894] Review Request: yum-cron - get yum updates via a cron job

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Summary: Review Request: yum-cron - get yum updates via a cron job


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244894


grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca changed:

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------- Additional Comments From grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca  2007-06-20 13:02 EST -------
I've been using the 0.1-1 version of this package for several months on FC6 and
it's been working like a charm.  More recently, I've also used it successfully
on FC7 Test 4 (which is now rawhide) and CenOS 5 (RHEL 5 clone).  I just
rebooted my rawhide system after it's been shut off for 5 days, installed the
yum-cron-0.2-2 package, and let anacron do its thing.  After a bit more than an
hour, the yum.log shows that 139 packages were updated, 8 installed, and 1
erased, all by the yum cron job.  What can I say, it still works like a charm!

I agree that /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum is really a script, not a config file, but
as I don't touch it myself it doesn't matter too much how the RPM designates it,
as long as I get any needed updates to it.

One little oddity is that when I did an "rpm -Uvh" to update from yum-cron 0.1-1
to 0.2-2, it left behind the /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/[KS]??yum symlinks and the lockfile
for the old "yum" service, which I needed to remove manually.  On other systems,
I did an "rpm -e yum-cron" before installing the new version, and that seemed to
do the trick.

I hope the package gets pushed out to rawhide, F7, FC6 and RHEL5.  Good work!

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