Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> Considering everyone has moved to including the yumconfigs in the
>>> -release package, I wonder why you are still shipping alternate
>>> yumconf packages?
>>>
>>> - KB
>> Everyone hasn't *moved* to including the yum configuration in the main
>> release package, it's always been that way.  
> 
> I think what Karambir means is that people are shipping config
> files in redhat-release / fedora-release ... etc rpms
> while SL uses another separate rpm for that purpose...
> 
> 
> What we do for SLC variant is:
> 
> - ship SL yum (plus some plugins) with default install
> 
> - ship yum-conf rpm which contains files for all repos
>   available from our install/update server - some are
>   enabled / some disabled by default: in all cases
>   the 'protectbase' is set for system/updates repo
>   (for sake of compatibility we do not allow by default
>    that packages from 3rd parties repos overwrite system
>    update)
> 
> - ship yum-autoupdate rpm (this is our own bash script
>   which takes care of:
> 
>   1. updating on boot (with countdown allowing for
>      user interrupt if in a hurry to boot ;-))
>   2. running daily update (at configurable hour plus
>      random interval)
>   3. mailing formatted results
> 
>   (all above configurable in an /etc/sysconfig file,
>    hooked up with init.d script).
> 
>   yes: I know all these is available elsewhere from separate
>   packages: advantage of this one (for us) is that this is
>   a single ~ 7500 bytes bash script depending only on:
>   bash, tee, unbuffer (yep .. this is ugly: but I could not
>   figure out how to do it in bash .. tell me if you
>   have an idea) .. and yum itself.
> 
>   If anybody is interested, latest version is at:
> 
>  http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/updates/SRPMS/yum-autoupdate-2-8.slc4.cern.src.rpm
> 
> 
> (the motivation behind above was that we didn;t like
> too much concatenating config files on the fly by the previous
> script available: made eventual debugging of the problem
> little bit harder..)
> 
> I think that moving yum config files into sl-release
> could be a good idea ..
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jarek

Hi Jarek,
You've probrubly already looked at this, but just incase you haven't, in 
the yum-utils there is yum-updateonboot.
Or is that part of what you are using for the bootup part?

Troy
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