John Franks wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 01:48, Jaroslaw Polok wrote: > > > > yum.cron - keep it the same or redo it? > > > > - What about using up2date (from FC3) with yum > > repositories behind ? > > (there are some goodies there: alike selecting > > 'nearest' repository server .. etc) > > > > Yum is nicer for scripts (e.g. cron jobs) than up2date. Configuring up2date to use yum repository does not remove yum... > FC3 allows the > use of yum or up2date and I much prefer yum. Yum will also > automatically select a repository (based on some unknown [to me] > algorithm). So will up2date using yum backend (this is done by the same script) It took me a while to discover how to turn this off and use > my own choice of repository. Of course both yum and up2date are > available and you can take your pick. That's my point: using up2date is 'natural' for all past Red Hat users (and a lot of current Fedora Core ones). > Since I have about 50 SL machines I keep a local mirror of the part of > the SL repository we use. For that reason I would prefer that > /etc/yum.conf not be overwritten on an upgrade. Of course, I may be in > the minority on this. That's separate question: yum.conf is supplied via yum-config RPM and should be marked there as %config(noreplace) Cheers Jarek