On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 18:14, M.Hockings wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:23, Thomas DuVally wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>I set mine to 30. I know that under the actual red-hat network it can't > >>be set below 120. It would default to 240 if it was, but since up2date > >>is checking against yum, I'm hoping that is no longer the case. > >> > >> > I would be curious to know what advantage that you think you are gaining > by checking very frequently? Do you really need to be updating your > system that often or is it a test system that you don't use for anything > else? > 'cause I'm a bit obsessive and use any excuse not to do real work :) > Personally I always view _any_ change to a _working_ system to be a risk > in that it may not work after. Checking for updates more than once a > day is (to me) an extravagance > In truth I'd agree, but the newness for Fedora has yet to wear off for me, so I'm being a bit geeky about it. > That said, I think it would be a convenience to be able to tag some > packages as auto-download (not auto-install though) for cases when one > has specific interest in updates to them. The earlier comment about > (maybe another thread?) about having some bittorrent kind of capability > integrated with the Red Hat update tool would also be slick. > > Mike > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Thomas J. DuVally Lead Systems Prog. CIS, Brown Univ. http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x15F233F6
