[CentOS-devel] yum-cron

[Farkas Levente]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> hi,
>> in 5.2 there is a yum-cron in the os dir, but there is a yum-cron only
>> in extras/x86_64 too (not in i386).
>> at the same time in 5.3 there is no yum-cron in the os dir, but there is
>> yum-cron only in extras/x86_64 too (not in i386).
>> at the same time there is a yum-cron in epel-5 too.
>> so imho it'd be useful to clean up this situation.
>>
> 
> We dont really have much interest here as to what EPEL or any other 
> third party repo is doing - you will need to chase it up with them.
> 
> The reason why we carried it in 5.0 etc was since yum-updatesd didnt 
> really do much. If there is anyway to make yum-updatesd run its updates 
> at a specific time, that would completely remove the need / role for 
> yum-cron. Which might be the best result allaround anyway.

may be i was not specific enough, so then the questions are:
- in 5.2 why yum-cron in extras/x86_64 if it's in os already?
- in 5.3 why yum-cron only in extras/x86_64 but not in extras/i386?
imho both the above is a bug.

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