Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Hi Troy.
>> 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?
> 
> No, the main difference being that what we use
> presents (on text screen) configurable timeout counter
> when user at the console can skip it by a keypress
> (it can also send pre-formatted e-mail to configurable
> account)
> 
> yum-updateonboot just starts and runs immediately
> (but it also can reboot the system immediately in case
> some updates requiring it are applied).
> 
> 
> [We can add this functionality in another 3-5 lines of bash
> if needed ;-)]
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jarek
> 
> PS: Speaking of update systems: we plan to abandon apt-get
>     completely for SLC5.

That's good to hear.
I'm all for keeping apt completely out of the release.  I don't know 
about the SLC part, but for the SL part, when we push out updates, it's 
now taking hours for SL 3.  And the majority of the time is building the 
apt repositories.
Troy
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