On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:09 -0700, Frank Liu wrote: > Hi there, > > I have two major issues (system won't boot) after the nightly yum > auto update, caused by the "new" selinux and kernel. > I am not blaming the team for bad QA, but I just want to know > from the list that > is it still a good idea to enable the nightly auto update? or is > it better to do it manually? > Another solution would be to have a hybrid of the two. The reason > I wanted auto update is so I won't miss a critical security fix. > This definitely needs to be installed in a timely manner. But > for other non security related updates, we can wait to do it manually, > with a scheduled window. In order for this "hybrid" to work, > all updates need to be tagged with "security" or "non-security" related. > or maybe tagged with "emergency" or "normal". Then the nightly > yum update can have a flag to do "all" updates, or just "emergency/security" > updates. > > Thoughts? you can specify exludes in /etc/yum.conf All your other packages will be updated. I exclude kernel in mine, and don't update it until it has been out a little while, kernel panic etc. related to my hardware would probably be reported on the list.
