[CentOS] Why yum-cron is only at x86_64 system?

Tue Jun 2 09:40:37 UTC 2009
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>

MontyRee wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> 
> I have operated centos 4.x and 5.x system.
> 
> for 4.x system, I auto update using yum and for 5.x system, using
> yum-cron.
> 
> but I can't find any yum-cron package (i386) like below.
> 
> # yum search yum-cron(at i686, centox 5.3)
> 
> Warning: No matches found for: yum-cron No Matches found
> 
> # yum search yum-cron(at x86_64, centos 5.3) 
> ==================================================== Matched:
> yum-cron ===================================================== 
> yum-cron.noarch : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job
> 
> 
> I don't know why the result was different?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.

To the best of my knowledge, yum-cron is depricated and has been
replaced with an update daemon of it's own.