yum-cron in the cloud images?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Sun Dec 16 18:21:35 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:02:01PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > What if we did security updates only, by default? (Right now, yum-cron
> > doesn't support this, so it'd be a F19 feature.)
> I'd be okay with this (or even an all-kinds-of-updates version) if and
> only if it becomes the default for the whole distribution.  A cloud
> image is even less well-suited to automatic updates than a desktop or
> server, and if we can't justify it for those cases, it definitely
> doesn't belong here either.

Well, with the desktop, there's theoretically someone who will see GUI-based
"updates available" notifications and apply them. I'm happy to make the case
for security updates for the whole distro, though. (For F19+.)

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