On 1/11/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's only a matter of time until you will be hit by bugs. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. The Fedora Project's distribution works swimmingly well out of the box running the nightly update service. If you choose to run against non-Fedora Project respositories, that has *nothing* to do with yum's nightly update service being problematic. > And if not these, you are very likely to be hit by inconsistent > repositories some time some where - Most likely, packages containing > shared libraries having changed SONAMEs. Sure, if you download software from non-Fedora Project respositories. This has nothing to do with running yum automatically each night to install *Fedora Core patches*. This has to do with your desire to be "bleeding edge" and automatically installing *non-vendor supplied software*. [cbell@circe yum.repos.d]$ pwd && ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d total 48 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1123 Jun 3 2005 fedora-devel.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 312 Jun 3 2005 fedora-extras-devel.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 299 Jun 3 2005 fedora-extras.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 294 Jun 3 2005 fedora.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 Jun 3 2005 fedora-updates.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337 Jun 3 2005 fedora-updates-testing.repo [cbell@circe yum.repos.d]$ Nice and boring, safe, 5-9s of confidence that I'll never see an issue. > If I were you, I'd very carefully examine my logs. I could bet you will > find several updates having failed for different reasons. 434 packages updated since installation, zero failures. -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
