firstboot system maintenance task

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Mar 27 17:05:28 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:16 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:00:21AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > After installing Fedora on any system, when the system boots up for the
> > first time I always log in as root immediately, in a text-mode console
> > (not via X), then run this sequence:
> > killall anacron
> > yum -y update
> 
> Just a side note -- you probably want 'yum -y upgrade' instead of update, in
> case any of the updates has new Obsoletes. (Happens occasionally.)

The difference is moot since we set obsoletes=1 in /etc/yum.conf :)

Jeremy




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