Re: mysql-server

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:49:35PM -0600, Pettit, Paul wrote:
> > Michal Jaegermann
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:05:51PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > > Maybe yum could be modified to allow you to download the 
> > updates to the
> > > cache without installing them
> > 
> > Not much need for this, really.  'yum check-update' will produce not
> > only a status but a list of packages if any available.  Feeding that
> > to a program (lftp, wget, .... ) which will retrieve those from
> > suitable mirrors is not that complicated.
> 
> Hmmm, covered this, but again that is a manual fix.

What is "manual"?  Wrting a script or applying updates you
automatically retrieved?

> The problem is when
> you want to do updates automaticaly but in doing so updates come out at
> times when there is no support ready (on holiday/vacation/etc) for
> undocumented problems.

'man 5 crontab'.  You may actually specify in which days you want
cron to trigger the given action.  Another option is for your update
script to check a list of "banned" dates and simply exit if the 
current day happens to be on that list.  Clearly you can combine
both approaches if desired.

You should not expect that a general distribution will set up such
detailed administrative policies for you but this is something you
can easily do yourself.

   Michal