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Re: yum-autoupdate
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:15:28 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:41:52AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
> >>chmod -x /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
> >
> >Are these kind of changes undone the next time this package is updated?
> 
> I guess this would prevent its being undone:
> chattr +i /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron

Will this cause "yum update" to bomb, blocking any further updates?

(Unless yum-skip-broken does what it name implies it should do. I never
how to make it do anything at all, and never figured out what all
those other yum plugins are supposed to do - documentation seems to be
non-existant).

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Konstantin Olchanski
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