[TriLUG] Newbie question reguarding YUM and Linux.

[Blackburn, Marvin]

I know this is not a popular opinion, but you should NEVER/EVER put in
packages
blindly.  By allowing yum to update automatically, you have NO idea what
is going to be put on your system. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Owen Berry
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:39 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Newbie question reguarding YUM and Linux.
> 
> My humble opinion is that you should never let it run automatically.
> Depending on your distribution, dependancies should not be a problem,
> but you never know. Also, config files sometimes need to be updated,
> and, also depending on the distribution, you might need to restart
> services by hand.
> 
> What you can do automatically is to run yum with check-update 
> and email
> the results to yourself. That way you can tell if you have updates
> available.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:05:43AM -0500, Chad Thomsen wrote:
> > Is it adviseable to run YUM and let the system update 
> itself.  I would tend
> > to think that any dependencies on files being updated may 
> cause issue with
> > the software that has created the depedencies.  As I am much more
> > experienced in  the windows realm of netork administration, 
> I would NEVER
> > let my servers update themselves automatically.  There has 
> been too many
> > times where a patch from MS fubared a major application or 
> caused other
> > issues.  I am guessing that the same issue exists with 
> Linux (or with any OS
> > for that matter) but to a lesser degree as in my ventures 
> into the world of
> > Linux has revealed it to be a much more robust, stable, 
> efficenent and
> > secure system.
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