production usage of test releases. (was abandoning FC3-T2)

Tom Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 12 23:43:08 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:39:54PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:46 -0700, Jon Savage wrote:
> > > So far, 1 got crushed on yum, so I've disabled updates service on the
> > > remaining 4, I say this was a solid test release, and quite stable,
> > > this was the 4th day running FC3T2, my only complain on FC2 (two) and
> > I prefer *not* to enable the nightly yum update feature on test
> > releases, call me crazy but I prefer to read the rawhide reports & see
> > a little list traffic prior to blindly upgrading  to
> > whatevertheheckeatsbabiestoday(tm). The nightly update feature is neat
> > for stable releases as far as workstations is concerned, dunno if I'd
> > *ever* put it on a server though.
> > 
> 
> As the primary author of yum I'll say this. I use the nightly update
> feature only on systems where I control the repository or where I know
> the people who control the repositories it uses.
> 
> In a structured environment where you control your repositories and you
> know what's being submitted to each, it's a lifesaver.

I have modified the script to only fetch packages.
Then in interactive mode I can install.

See the man page:

   yum --download-only


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