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Re: Bug in yum-autoupdate
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Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:35:33 -0400
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On 07/31/2013 11:30 AM, Vincent Liggio wrote:
> How is having it on by default a safe setting? Any sysadmin running
> Linux should know how to update. SL is not a release for your average
> user, it's for the scientific community. If I wanted an OS designed for
> non-admins, I'd run Ubuntu.

You assume only knowledgeable sysadmins run RHEL/derivatives.  I fully 
disagree.

> And there are bugs in various software out there (such as ypbind) which
> are not fixed in the current release and so having autoupdate step on
> critical packages is bad.

Agree, it can (and has) caused headaches.  But do I think it is worse 
than never updating?  No.

Jeff

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