[ale] Updates

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:57 -0400, Warren Myers wrote:
> I know there are some issues with my approach: but why not cron a 'yum
> -y update && yum -y upgrade' ?

Because that will update EVERYTHING. Fedora is bleeding edge and
upgrades can/do cause problems.

It is better to have a list things to NOT upgrade and exclude them
explicitly:

yum --exclude=foo --exclude=bar --exclude=baz update packagefoo

The exclusions will prevent upgrades even if packagefoo now calls for
foo, bar and baz to be updated.

Yum is a pretty good process in that it is not going to upgrade if
everything isn't there. There is no yum --force (nor should there be).
> 
> WMM
> 
> On 7/17/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:06 -0400, Brian W. Neu wrote:
>         
>         > You could turn yum-updatesd off with chkconfig.  I almost
>         wish yum
>         > distinguished between a security hole update and just an
>         update.
>         
>         That would be a VERY desirable feature for yum - only track
>         security 
>         fixes or additionally bug fixes.
>         
>         Maybe if the changelog could be flagged with "**Security Fix**
>         - CERT
>         #foo" and "**Bug Fix** ....
>         
>         rpm has a --changelog flag that displays the ENTIRE changelog.
>         Since 
>         each entry my formality must use the version number on the top
>         line
>         there is a way to track security and bug fixes by version. All
>         that is
>         needed is to have the repodata reflect the new info and yum
>         respect the
>         a new config setting.
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