dnf replacement for yum-cron

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:06:45PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > That's not the most descriptiony of all descriptions ever, but if the name
> > is any indication, it is just a thing which keeps the cache up to date.
> > yum-cron can actually apply updates  [....]
> That sounds dangerous ... updates are not really atomic (i.e not at
> all) doing them silently in the background is a very bad idea.

Yet, it works pretty well most of the time. I've done it at decent scale on
production machines with no real issues -- and, most critically, with
*fewer* issues than on unpatched systems.

Real issues do _occasionally_ occur, but so do bad disks, failed ram, bad
offline updates, etc., etc. Fear over lack of atomicity is letting "it's not
perfect!" get in the way of real world usefulness.

Additionally, these updates aren't _silent_ -- they're logged and there's an
e-mailed report.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader