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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com