email builder wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the > criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will > not. > > I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of > stuff, but I also notice that yum will not upgrade other packages at all (easy > example is clamav, but there are others). > > Can someone explain or point me to where I can read about the distinction > between what is and is not subjected to automatic upgrade? > Automatic upgrade (if "yum upgrade" is run), will upgrade all newer rpm packages that are in *enabled* repositories. If you installed from external repository that you keep disabled, those packages will not be automatically upgraded. Ljubomir