On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:49:01PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead:
> >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29
>
> The directions and tools are also entirely incompatible with older
> versions of Scientific Linux, such as SL 6 or the still supported SL 5.
>

(on-list reply)

I think there is a misunderstanding.

The intent of my instructions is to restore in SL7/CentOS7 the functionality that has
been always present in SL5 and SL6, where yum-autoupdate was always present
and is easy to enable via "chkconfig yum-autuopdate on":

SL5: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27524 Dec 10  2014 6x/x86_64/os/Packages/yum-autoupdate-2-6.6.noarch.rpm
SL6: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9111 Oct  8  2012 5x/x86_64/SL/yum-autoupdate-1.2-3.SL.noarch.rpm

This package is absent in SL7 and CentOS7, so I have to pull it in from CERN linux CC-7. I agree
it would have been cleaner to install the CC-7 yum repository, but that could have accidentally
pulled some unwanted CERN packages.

(to Nico)

If you do not like the yum-autoupdate script, you do not have to use it,
but there is no need to dump on the tool or/and on my instructions.

> 
> ... Replacing a live, standard upstream kernel for such a small reason is
> always a bad idea. ...
>

You are mistaken, my instructions do not replace the standard kernel.

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