[TriLUG] Newbie question reguarding YUM and Linux.

[Blackburn, Marvin]

Believe it or not, I had an instructor in a Redhat 9.0 class that said
that everyone should run up2date nightly.
He was adamant about it.  I've seen on this list and others many that
advocate that.  I'm just too anal retentive to do it. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Owen Berry
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:03 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Newbie question reguarding YUM and Linux.
> 
> It's unpopular? I would like to hear some arguments for automatically
> updating a system ... I don't know of any good reason to. If 
> you want to
> be sure it stays up to date - have it email you when updates are
> available, and then do it by hand.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:24:34PM -0500, Blackburn, Marvin wrote:
> > 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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