Does pirut and yuum really work in FC6

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 5 23:14:18 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 18:59 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Sunday 05 November 2006 18:50, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> My contention is still that one of these programs is screwing this up
>>> but we will see. If no one else finds this happening to them I will have
>>> to concede that I am  wrong. We will see.
>>>
>> I haven't seen anyone else report this, Aaron, and it certainly didn't happen 
>> to me.  I'm using yum both for installing packages and updating, and haven't 
>> had any problems at all.
>>
>> Anne
> But are you also allowing the pirut automatic updates to take place? I
> think that is what got me in trouble.

Pirut doesnt have any capability to do updates and certainly not 
automatic updates. Pup can do updates but not auto updates. You can in 
Fedora Core 6 configure yum-updatesd to automatically do updates but 
that feature is not working due to a bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507

Rahul




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