[CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades
email builder
emailbuilder88 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 5 22:14:16 UTC 2011
> 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?
More info: yum-updatesd is running and I do not have yum-cron. yum-updatesd
does a fine job from what I can tell, but I still cannot understand what
criteria it applies to know which packages get upgraded and which do not. (?)
The yum-updatesd configuration file is ultra-simple, so that doesn't seem to be
where the update choice/distinction is being made.
There seem to be people posting in various places that they prefer to use
yum-cron, but I have no problems with yum-updatesd and I suspect yum-cron
wouldn't address/answer my question anyway.
Help?
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