[CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
office at plnet.rs
Tue Apr 5 22:28:29 UTC 2011
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
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