On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 23:23 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Vandaman wrote:
From the notes on the "bug" you would have to have 4.5/os/$basearch/
instead of $releasever/os/$basearch/ to get the "bug".
And you assume that since he is seeing similar effects, he must also have done the exact same thing ?
Also yum update or upgrade should not break anything unless you have packages from elsewhere and murked about with the configs.
Forget that bug, it was a totally differnet machine and i don't want this mixed up here, may be it was my fault, it doesn't matter.
I have looked on the last month's list and not seen :-
- people whose machines took weeks to autoupdate.
- people whose production machines were broken by 4.6 to 4.7
Clearly Lutz's situation is unique and he has not told us the whole story.
You don't wanna hear the whole story, i can tell you... :)
From my point of view, i wouldn't let do a productive machine such
an update unattended, that's why i switched it off (as i already said, i didn't know, it was turned on). Neither yum nor I can presume the impact. Not that i blame yum for it, i don't expect it can foresee all complexities of any installed software.
i'd like to monitor every update in a downtime window (for productive machines!), just to be save i don't run into trouble, when the box is needed. I also wouldn't do any "dist-upgrade" in debian or install service Packs on windows (forgive me _that_ analogy...) without watching it.
For my own curiosity, i'd like to know the reason, why it took almost 3 weeks before the updates hit the machine. The Base Repository gets its mirrorlist from "mirrorlist.centos.org". I can post it, if you want. What might be interesting is the fact, that there is also the "dag" repository (http://dag.wieers.com) enabled, where the nagios-nrpe package comes from.
For the dhcrelay issue: The update brought dhcp.x86_64 7:3.0.1-62.EL4 and in the messages i have an entry with succeeded TERM signal
Oct 2 04:14:02 trainer dhcrelay: dhcrelay -TERM succeeded
shouldn't it get -HUP Signal or completely restarted?
Regards
Lutz