yum and automatic updates

Hi

I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
intervention.

I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when yum
ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"

Thx for your response and really sorry for my poor english

jix

[Wayne Leutwyler]

yum -y update

cron that up and it will do the job for you.

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 10:42, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
> intervention.
>
> I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when yum
> ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"
>
> Thx for your response and really sorry for my poor english
>
> jix

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[Augusto Cezar Amaral]

You can use "yum -y update" in your crontab or enable nightly yum
updates with "service yum start". To enable nightly yum updates on
startup use "chkconfig --level 2345 yum on".

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 11:42, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
> intervention.
>
> I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when yum
> ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"
>
> Thx for your response and really sorry for my poor english
>
> jix

[]s!

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 28.06.2004 schrieb [e-mail] um 16:42:
> I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
> intervention.
>
> I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when yum
> ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"
> jix

service yum start
chkconfig yum on

That is all and yum will each night run an update job. See "man yum" if
you want parameter explanations. Read the file
"/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron" to see what it does.

Alexander

Thx to all of us \o/

jix

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Objet : Re: yum and automatic updates

yum -y update

cron that up and it will do the job for you.

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 10:42, [e-mail] wrote:

Hi

I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
intervention.

I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when yum
ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"

Thx for your response and really sorry for my poor english

jix

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As long as there is breath in my body,
there will be a Penguin on my Desktop.

Home: 614-336-9668

Work: 614-410-7507

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[Scott Sloan]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 16:42 +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
> intervention.

yum -y update

yum makes me crazy

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

who could explain this dialog:

[root@machin root]# yum install ntp
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
 . Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: ntp 4.1.2-5.i386]
I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
[deps: libcap 1.10-16.i386]
[deps: sed 4.0.8-2.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Exiting on user command.

I get this in 50% of my attempts to install/update packages!!!

--
François Patte

Inde :
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Deccan College
Pune 411006
Tél : (00 91) (0) 20 26 69 39 04

France :
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

yum makes me crazy

[Jason Aeschilman]

François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> who could explain this dialog:
>
> [root@machin root]# yum install ntp
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
>  . Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [install: ntp 4.1.2-5.i386]
> I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
> [deps: libcap 1.10-16.i386]
> [deps: sed 4.0.8-2.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Exiting on user command.
>
> I get this in 50% of my attempts to install/update packages!!!

It must be a bug in yum because this happened to me a bunch of times as
well.  If you run the command again, it'll work (at least it would for me).
Are the yum people aware of this?

--
J.A.K.E.
[ jake1138 AT yahoo DOT com ]

yum makes me crazy

[Scott Sloan]

> It must be a bug in yum because this happened to me a bunch of times as
> well.  If you run the command again, it'll work (at least it would for me).
> Are the yum people aware of this?

I filed the bug report a while ago but couldn't reproduce it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123818

reopen the bug and add any strace or any other information you have

yum makes me crazy

[William Hooper]

François Patte said:
> Bonjour,
>
> who could explain this dialog:
>
> [root@machin root]# yum install ntp

Getting some debug output would be a good start.

yum -d 4 install ntp

yum makes me crazy

[Rick Stevens]

Scott Sloan wrote:
> > It must be a bug in yum because this happened to me a bunch of times as
> > well.  If you run the command again, it'll work (at least it would for me).
> > Are the yum people aware of this?
>
> I filed the bug report a while ago but couldn't reproduce it.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123818
>
> reopen the bug and add any strace or any other information you have

You might also make sure you have adequate space on your yum spool 
filesystem to hold the RPMs.  I seem to recall this error occurring on
a full yum spool filesystem (by default, /var).  A "yum clean" might
fix it.
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[Clint Harshaw]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
> intervention.
>
> I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when yum
> ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"
>
> Thx for your response and really sorry for my poor english
>
> jix

Here is the approach I used to enable a nightly yum update:

1. Click on Redhat -> System Settings -> Server Settings -> Services
2. Give it your root pw
3. Scroll through the list for yum, putting a check mark in its place, 
and also clicking on Start. Save this.

HTH,
Clint

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

I want to update one fedora system and have this in my yum.conf (and some other
servers):

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
         http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386
gpgcheck=1

When yum wants to resolve dependencies, I get this message:

Resolving dependencies
.Package mplayer-mencoder needs libxvidcore.so.2, this is not available.

Checking which package "libxvidcore.so.2" belongs to, I got:
xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1

What can I see in:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info?:

0:xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1.i386=RPMS/xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1.i386.rpm

What shall I do now?

Thank you.
--
François Patte

Inde :
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Deccan College
Pune 411006
Tél : (00 91) (0) 20 26 69 39 04

France :
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

yum makes me crazy

[Grigory Bakunov]

> Bonjour,
>
> who could explain this dialog:
>
> [root@machin root]# yum install ntp
> I will do the following:
> [install: ntp 4.1.2-5.i386]
> I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
> [deps: libcap 1.10-16.i386]
> [deps: sed 4.0.8-2.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Exiting on user command.
>
> I get this in 50% of my attempts to install/update packages!!!

Let me guess. Realy your dialog looks like this:
yum> Is this ok [y/N]:
you> {one of your international characters} ^H {i mean 'backspace'} y
^J {i mean 'enter'}

I put my comments to {}.
I'm right?
If it's true then you have typical problem. In short words if you
input one unicode symbol you need to press backspace twice cause each
unicode symbol its two bytes. Sad but true.

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[david walcroft]

François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I want to update one fedora system and have this in my yum.conf (and some other
> servers):
>
> [livna-stable]
> name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
>          http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386
> gpgcheck=1
>
> When yum wants to resolve dependencies, I get this message:
>
> Resolving dependencies
> .Package mplayer-mencoder needs libxvidcore.so.2, this is not available.
>
> Checking which package "libxvidcore.so.2" belongs to, I got:
> xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1
>
> What can I see in:
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info?:
>
> 0:xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1.i386=RPMS/xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1.i386.rpm
>
> What shall I do now?
> Thank you.
>
> François Patte
>
> Inde :
> Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
> Deccan College
> Pune 411006
> Tél : (00 91) (0) 20 26 69 39 04
>
> France :
> Université René Descartes - Paris 5
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

Try yum  <command> --exclude=libxvidcore

david

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[SoftCell]

i configured yum according to the example file which can be found at:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
maybe it will help you, i have had no problems updating anything

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:36:31 +1000, david walcroft
 wrote:
> François Patte wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > I want to update one fedora system and have this in my yum.conf (and some other
> > servers):
> >
> > [livna-stable]
> > name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> > baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
> >          http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386
> > gpgcheck=1
> >
> > When yum wants to resolve dependencies, I get this message:
> >
> > Resolving dependencies
> > .Package mplayer-mencoder needs libxvidcore.so.2, this is not available.
> >
> > Checking which package "libxvidcore.so.2" belongs to, I got:
> > xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1
> >
> > What can I see in:
> > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info?:
> >
> > 0:xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1.i386=RPMS/xvidcore-0.9.2-0.lvn.1.1.i386.rpm
> >
> > What shall I do now?
> > Thank you.
> >
> > François Patte
> >
> > Inde :
> > Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
> > Deccan College
> > Pune 411006
> > Tél : (00 91) (0) 20 26 69 39 04
> >
> > France :
> > Université René Descartes - Paris 5
> > UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
>
> Try yum  <command> --exclude=libxvidcore
>   david
>
>
>
>
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yum makes me crazy (bis)

[François Patte]

On mar jun 29, 2004 at 05:38:29 -0400, SoftCell wrote:
> i configured yum according to the example file which can be found at:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
> maybe it will help you, i have had no problems updating anything

I got a lot errors trying this file:

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers...
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/hea...
  Executing failover method
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header....
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

??

yum makes me crazy

[François Patte]

On mar jun 29, 2004 at 10:13:36 +0400, Grigory Bakunov wrote:
> > Bonjour,
> >
> > who could explain this dialog:
> >
> > [root@machin root]# yum install ntp
> > I will do the following:
> > [install: ntp 4.1.2-5.i386]
> > I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies:
> > [deps: libcap 1.10-16.i386]
> > [deps: sed 4.0.8-2.i386]
> > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > Exiting on user command.
> >
> > I get this in 50% of my attempts to install/update packages!!!
>
> Let me guess. Realy your dialog looks like this:
> yum> Is this ok [y/N]:
> you> {one of your international characters} ^H {i mean 'backspace'} y
> ^J {i mean 'enter'}
>
> I put my comments to {}.
> I'm right?

except ^H
> If it's true then you have typical problem. In short words if you
> input one unicode symbol you need to press backspace twice cause each
> unicode symbol its two bytes. Sad but true.

don't understand this. I don't use utf-8 in the terminal I use to
update.

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:44:50 +0200, François Patte wrote:
> On mar jun 29, 2004 at 05:38:29 -0400, SoftCell wrote:
> > i configured yum according to the example file which can be found at:
> > http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
> > maybe it will help you, i have had no problems updating anything
>
> I got a lot errors trying this file:
>
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
>   Executing failover method
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> ??

The /etc/yum.conf is wrong. Verify the correct http://path with your
favourite browser and realize that for FC1 (!) the "headers" directory
is elsewhere:

baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/

Just browse the repository if you have doubts or if you get a 404 error.

yum makes me crazy

[Grigory Bakunov]

> > If it's true then you have typical problem. In short words if you
> > input one unicode symbol you need to press backspace twice cause each
> > unicode symbol its two bytes. Sad but true.
>
> don't understand this. I don't use utf-8 in the terminal I use to
> update.

it's depends of current locale, not terminal type.
try to execute command
  locale
did you see 'UTF-8' words here?

yum makes me crazy

[François Patte]

Selon Grigory Bakunov :
> > > If it's true then you have typical problem. In short words if you
> > > input one unicode symbol you need to press backspace twice cause each
> > > unicode symbol its two bytes. Sad but true.
> >
> > don't understand this. I don't use utf-8 in the terminal I use to
> > update.
>
> it's depends of current locale, not terminal type.
> try to execute command
>   locale
> did you see 'UTF-8' words here?

I update a distant machine which has default LANG fr_FR@utf-8 but the terminal I
use for this purpose reply: fr_FR@euro

--
François Patte

Inde :
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Deccan College
Pune 411006
Tél : (00 91) (0) 20 26 69 39 04

France :
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

yum makes me crazy

[Grigory Bakunov]

> I update a distant machine which has default LANG fr_FR@utf-8 but the terminal I
> use for this purpose reply: fr_FR@euro

try to execute yum command like this:
LC_ALL=POSIX yum install something

it's must help

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

> > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
> > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> >
> > ??
>
> The /etc/yum.conf is wrong. Verify the correct http://path with your
> favourite browser and realize that for FC1 (!) the "headers" directory
> is elsewhere:

Hey. It's not that the yum.conf is wrong -- there's actually a
different yum.conf for FC1:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf

The one up there currently is for FC2.

-Max

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:51:17 -0700, Max K-A wrote:
> > > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.in...
> > > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > >
> > > ??
> >
> > The /etc/yum.conf is wrong. Verify the correct http://path with your
> > favourite browser and realize that for FC1 (!) the "headers" directory
> > is elsewhere:
>
> Hey. It's not that the yum.conf is wrong -- there's actually a
> different yum.conf for FC1:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf
>
> The one up there currently is for FC2.

The path at the top of the quote above _is wrong_. Fedora.us' Yum
repository for FC1 Extras still uses a separate "yum" directory:

http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/

You cannot turn this into a generic entry with $releasever and get
it to work on FC2, because the directory layout for FC2 extras was
simplied and the yum directory was obsoleted:

http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable

yum makes me crazy (bis)

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

> > Hey. It's not that the yum.conf is wrong -- there's actually a
> > different yum.conf for FC1:
> > http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf
> >
> > The one up there currently is for FC2.
>
> The path at the top of the quote above _is wrong_. Fedora.us' Yum
> repository for FC1 Extras still uses a separate "yum" directory:
>
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/

Yes, I know. You see, there are two yum.conf files on the FAQ, because
the fedora.us structure is different for FC1 and FC2:

FC2: http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
    FC1: http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf

If you try to use the FC2 version when you're running FC1, then you'll
have problems. In general, don't use the FC2 FAQ for FC1.

-Max