On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Santi Saez wrote:

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Dear Srs,

yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using:

# rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos

I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]) in the bug tracker, and more info related to other distros like Fedora, etc.. with the same problem.

yum-updatesd does not automatically update in CentOS 5.2, is there any patch for this? anyone using this daemon for Yum?

This is the configuration file:

# grep -v "#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] run_interval = 60 updaterefresh = 60 emit_via = email email_to = santi@example.com email_from = centos@example.com do_update = yes do_download = yes do_download_deps = yes

Regards,

[1] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2039 [2] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2592 [3] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2560

yum-updatesd does not install updates, it tells you they are available.

yum-cron (or a batch file you create with a 'yum -y upgrade' ) would be needed to actually upgrade the system.

---- FWIW Johnny...on Fedora yum-updatesd does indeed automatically install updates if configured as above (not the default).

Craig

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:10 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Craig White wrote:

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On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

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Santi Saez wrote:

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Dear Srs,

yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using:

# rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos

I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]) in the bug tracker, and more info related to other distros like Fedora, etc.. with the same problem.

yum-updatesd does not automatically update in CentOS 5.2, is there any patch for this? anyone using this daemon for Yum?

This is the configuration file:

# grep -v "#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] run_interval = 60 updaterefresh = 60 emit_via = email email_to = santi@example.com email_from = centos@example.com do_update = yes do_download = yes do_download_deps = yes

Regards,

[1] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2039 [2] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2592 [3] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2560

yum-updatesd does not install updates, it tells you they are available.

yum-cron (or a batch file you create with a 'yum -y upgrade' ) would be needed to actually upgrade the system.

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FWIW Johnny...on Fedora yum-updatesd does indeed automatically install updates if configured as above (not the default).

And it probably SHOULD work in CentOS too ... but it doesn't.

We will probably look at it at some point ... but yumcron was included since it is currently broken.

---- I should have noted that I never could get yum-updatesd to automatically update a system until Fedora 8. It never worked in Fedora 7.

Craig

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Santi Saez santi@hostalia.com wrote:

Dear Johnny,

Oh, no! A "Dear Johnny" letter! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

(SCNR :-)

mhr <BFG>

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:42 +0100, John Horne wrote:

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:12 +0200, Santi Saez wrote:

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So, appears that yum-updatesd can download, notify and install updates.. but none of this works on a fresh CentOS 5.2 :-(

Well I tested this on Centos 5.1 and 5.2, as well as Fedora 9. It does seem to work. For CentOS 5.2 I simply installed the scim-docs RPM, which we do not usually have installed but it does have an update waiting. Having configured yum-updatesd to do an automatic update in 15 mins, I then just left it. After 15 mins it had applied the update. So it worked.

In my case the problem is that I have configured yum-updatesd for notifications by syslog. It seems that the syslog option only works when updates are 'available'. If you ask for them to be automatically updated, or if an error occurs, then nothing is logged. (If you use the email option then you get the errors or update count as a mail message.) On my 5.1 systems, we have modified yum.conf to exclude the kernel and glibc packages from updating - we prefer to do those manually. However, this then means that when yum-updatesd runs, to update the system to centos 5.2, it gets a dependency error because of our excluded packages. As mentioned above, using syslog this is not logged at all. (Taking out the exclusions, and configuring yum-updatesd not to do updates, and I then correctly get a syslog message that 239 updates are available.)

I have created a patch to the /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper file which I will log in to the RedHat bugzilla tonight. (I want to check things on my F9 PC at home before submitting the bugzilla log.) The patch logs errors and the number of applied updates when using syslog. Tested, and it works fine (it was how I found out about the missing dependencies on our 5.1 server).

So, perhaps not much help to the OP I'm afraid, but it sorted out what I think is a bug (with the syslog option).

John.