On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done. I don't want automatic updates; I want to control when and what gets updated.
Keep in mind that to _not_ install an update, you have to know more than the RH engineers about the code. I usually assume they had a good reason for going to the trouble of shipping it and that they would have to have a very, very good reason to ship anything that would break an existing API in an update. Of course it is always good policy to test the combination of things you run in production on a non-critical box first.
First I have to determine that a particular server needs updates. I suppose a daily script that would run "yum check-updates' and emails me the results could work, but then I would only want the email IF there was something to update, at my limited use of this option does not show anything to trigger a notify on changes. Does anyone know of a script that would do this?
How about just joining the centos-announce mail list?