How do I enable nightly yum?

[John Summerfied]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
> 
>>Downloading automatically: good time saver.
>>Updating automatically: invitation to Ill Fortune.
> 
> 
> In my experience the only thing likely to cause serious problems
> are new kernels, so I exclude=kernel* for automatic updates.

There are several packages that can cause global problems. They include
grub (maybe won't boot)
glibc
selinux
initialisation scripts
bind (in some cases)
dhcp client (can prevent network starting)
> 
> But surely other problems are going to show up at some point,
> whether you do it automatically or not?
> You cannot tell beforehand if installation of a package
> is going to cause difficulties.
> Or at least I can't.


If I've updated, say glibc, and then problems arise then there is some 
prospect I'll think of glibc as something that changed.

If I don't know something's updated there's a good chance I will think 
it wasn't.


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