On 1/11/06, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > You're lucky. The last two releases of xorg-x11 have caused X-windows to fail on my system. Each time I have had to reinstall the older version. It doesn't take much time to perform but it is a pain in the behind.
