On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:25 +1000, Danny Yee wrote: > Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > And I am quite frankly surprised that any one woudl allow yum to > > update their machine automatically every night. > > That's the default configuration... and for desktop machines it > doesn't seem so terrible. > I don't think the daily update is default. Mine _never_ has been set to do an automatic update by default. If I want to do the daily update I can simply do a "service yum start" and it will turn on the nightly update. At present this is the status of mine (as it always is with my default install parameters): [jeff@raptor ~]$ /sbin/service yum status Nightly yum update is disabled. I admit that I do not do a default desktop or server install, but with the custom install it certainly is *not* the default to do automatic yum updates. IMHO allowing a system to do the automatic update *is* a problem, for exactly the reason the you noted in the original post. If a critical part of the system is updated but the matching _mandatory_ part is not in sync then you lose. In this case, the kernel update comes from Fedora and the video module comes from livna. There is a known delay in getting the video drivers updated, so an automatic update of the kernel is a problem if you are rebooting frequently and it uses the newer kernel before the driver has been updated. > Danny. > --------------------------------------------------------- > http://dannyreviews.com/ - over nine hundred book reviews > http://danny.oz.au/ - civil liberties, travel tales, blog > --------------------------------------------------------- >
