Yum update cron Jobs

[Don Springall]

>From: Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
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>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases 
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>Subject: Re: Yum update cron Jobs
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:58:01 -0500
>
>On 2/10/06, Don Springall <don_springall at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone working on improvements to yum so a cron job can be scheduled 
>to
> > update everything and not fail due to dependency errors ? If so what is 
>the
> > time line for this feature ?
>
>http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum
>has example scripts to automate working around dependence problems to
>apply as many updates as possible. These scripts can of course be
>cronjob'd.
>
>yum has its own development mailinglist for discussion about the
>roadmap of yum development.
>
>-jef
Yes I have seen that script. It is rather silly to be running it when you 
have over one thousand packages to install. In fact it borders on being a 
bad joke.