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Thomas DuVally
tduvally at brown.edu
Thu Nov 20 15:23:49 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 18:14, M.Hockings wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:23, Thomas DuVally wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I set mine to 30. I know that under the actual red-hat network it can't
> >>be set below 120. It would default to 240 if it was, but since up2date
> >>is checking against yum, I'm hoping that is no longer the case.
> >>
> >>
> I would be curious to know what advantage that you think you are gaining
> by checking very frequently? Do you really need to be updating your
> system that often or is it a test system that you don't use for anything
> else?
>
'cause I'm a bit obsessive and use any excuse not to do real work :)
> Personally I always view _any_ change to a _working_ system to be a risk
> in that it may not work after. Checking for updates more than once a
> day is (to me) an extravagance
>
In truth I'd agree, but the newness for Fedora has yet to wear off for
me, so I'm being a bit geeky about it.
> That said, I think it would be a convenience to be able to tag some
> packages as auto-download (not auto-install though) for cases when one
> has specific interest in updates to them. The earlier comment about
> (maybe another thread?) about having some bittorrent kind of capability
> integrated with the Red Hat update tool would also be slick.
>
> Mike
>
>
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Thomas J. DuVally
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CIS, Brown Univ.
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