Automatic update

[Kam Leo]

On 2/13/06, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr at pajato.com> wrote:
> Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> writes:
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>  > Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>  > > One of the original reasons that I chose Redhat/Fedora was the ability
> ...
>  > > Ubuntu is all about.
>  > >
>  > > -pmr
>  > >
>  > yum has a service for nightly update in fc4 (and maybe others). why
>  > don't you edit the associated scripts to only download the packages, not
>  > install them?  that would be the identical behavior that ms allows, or
>  > you could choose to have them automatically applied by just enabling the
>  > current service.  as another writer mentioned, you kernel is never
>  > updated per se.  the new one is just installed and /etc/grub.conf is
>  > changed to boot into the new one, but your old kernel stays safe and sound.
>
> This looks quite adequate to meet my needs.  Thanks for the tip.
>
> So one of my systems has the service and another does not.  Hmmmmm.  I
> drill into the issue further and it would appear that ATrpms provided
> yum for the non-yum service system.  Grrrrrrrr.  Fedora's own dll
> hell.  And now it would appear that a total re-install would be
> required to undo the dependence that particular system has on the
> ATrpms packages.  Live and learn.  Whatever it was that convinced me
> to enable the ATrpms repo is long since forgotten, but I will never
> use the site again, but to meet an isolated and well defined need that
> cannot be met from a less intrusive packager.
>
> -pmr
>

I use the Smart Package Manager, http://labix.org/smart. It is very
good at sorting out conflicts between repos..