On 2/13/06, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anthony Messina <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 > > autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 > > > > Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > > > One of the original reasons that I chose Redhat/Fedora was the ability > ... > > > Ubuntu is all about. > > > > > > -pmr > > > > > yum has a service for nightly update in fc4 (and maybe others). why > > don't you edit the associated scripts to only download the packages, not > > install them? that would be the identical behavior that ms allows, or > > you could choose to have them automatically applied by just enabling the > > current service. as another writer mentioned, you kernel is never > > updated per se. the new one is just installed and /etc/grub.conf is > > changed to boot into the new one, but your old kernel stays safe and sound. > > This looks quite adequate to meet my needs. Thanks for the tip. > > So one of my systems has the service and another does not. Hmmmmm. I > drill into the issue further and it would appear that ATrpms provided > yum for the non-yum service system. Grrrrrrrr. Fedora's own dll > hell. And now it would appear that a total re-install would be > required to undo the dependence that particular system has on the > ATrpms packages. Live and learn. Whatever it was that convinced me > to enable the ATrpms repo is long since forgotten, but I will never > use the site again, but to meet an isolated and well defined need that > cannot be met from a less intrusive packager. > > -pmr > I use the Smart Package Manager, http://labix.org/smart. It is very good at sorting out conflicts between repos..
