Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:58, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>>> Also, its a good idea to subscribe to the CentOS-announce mailing list, >>>> all package updates are announced there. ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) >>>> >>>> Setting up rss feeds for the repositories as well, so you could / would >>>> / should be able to subscribe to only the repo+arch combinations you >>>> want to stay informed about... Lookout for an announcement about this >>>> shortly. >>> >>> Or you can just do a 'yum update' regularly and the right thing >>> will happen. >>> >> depends on what you do, on a lot of production machines, people prefer >> to first know about the issues being fixed, and testing updates before >> they go live. >> >> but, i guess that depends a lot on what you do and what your machines do :) > > You still have to answer 'yes' to a "yum update' after it shows > you the list it plans to update, so assuming you answer correctly > it will always do the right thing. If you do it fairly often, > the list will only be large at point release times so you > won't have much trouble deciding whether it is likely to break > something or not. Or, if you have a place to test, do it there > first. In general, I'll assume that the people generating the > updates know more about the programs than I do and thus it is > worse to avoid the update than apply it. If you've watched > this list for a while, you'll know that you don't see a lot > of 'update xxx broke something', although it is always possible. > we seem to be talking about disconnected issues. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq