yum-cron in the cloud images?

Florian La Roche Florian.LaRoche at gmx.net
Fri Dec 14 14:21:42 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 09:17:21AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:05:06AM -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
> > It's frustrating enough on a local machine when an update goes wrong.
> > But on an Amazon machine, you have no console during bootup.  So if
> > something is going wrong during bootup ... you're out of luck.
> 
> Yeah. On the other hand, with Fedora's fast pace, leading edge nature, and
> huge package selection, I feel like we're doing our users a disservice by
> not providing some level of protection. 

Add new images will all updates applied and minimal tests of them.

> 
> What if we did security updates only, by default? (Right now, yum-cron
> doesn't support this, so it'd be a F19 feature.)

Might be an option, not sure this is stable enough.

regards,

Florian La Roche



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