On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:01, Charles Gregory wrote: > Thanks, but the issue is not the migration as such, but the ongoing > mnaintenance. Under the old Red Hat Network, we could have a 'reactive' > system, where we would be notified of critical patches/updates, and the > 'trained monkey' would be told to run 'up2date' and everything would be > handled automatically. The thing that is not clear from the website is > whether there is anything resembling this mechanism in 'Fedora'. How much > smarter must our volunteers be to handle updates? The trained monkey can still run up2date and it will still work ok. You will need to worry a bit more than usual in case up2date picks up a big upgrade that needs human intervention, but that will be 1) rare; and 2) just as much human intervention as is required by a standard is-this-going-to-affect-me decision when the "upgrade this rpm RIGHT NOW before you get hacked" situation happens once every six months or so. Bottom line: Fedora will use up2date. If you expect up2date to be run by a trained monkey, you will have the same amount of issues as if you cron "yum upgrade".
