For SL7 we would like to switch to the upstream provided 'yum-cron' 
instead of our 'yum-autoupdate' package.  The recent releases seem to be 
feature compatible with yum-autoupdate from SL6, but have the advantage 
of upstream development.

Are there any objections?

What if any packages should be excluded from the default automatic 
update?  If you've a list of suggestions, should it be set out of the 
box or via a 'tweak rpm'?



A brief bit on why I (Pat Riehecky, not speaking for SL here) like 
having updates on by default.  If you know what you are doing, you can 
disable this and schedule updates with your downtime windows. The SL 
audience ranges from professional systems admins to graduate students 
with little training in systems administration.  This leaves the systems 
in a 'default less hackable' state, and, to my mind, helps protect less 
experienced users as well as the wider internet from the possible side 
effects of unpatched systems.  There are still systems out there 
vulnerable to Heartbleed.  But none of those are SL boxes left in their 
default state.

Pat

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Pat Riehecky

Scientific Linux developer
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