[CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

[Ross Walker]

On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>  
wrote:

> Lanny Marcus wrote:
>> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
>> cron job. update yum and then update.
>
> a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was  
> broken
> then. b) It is broken again :/ c) "yum update yum" and then "yum  
> update"
> the rest broke things for some people when going from 5.2 to 5.3.

Ralph,

I wonder if yum-updatesd might cache repo data separate from yum  
cache, in which case some older incompatible cached data from the  
previous version may still be around causing yum-updatesd to bork.

If so I think that cache will need to be manually deleted.

I'll check my desktop system when I get to work to see if my theory is  
correct.

-Ross