Connie Sieh wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
On Jul 28, 2009, at 20:04, Billy Crook wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:33, John
Summerfield<[email protected]> wrote:
It seems that removing this isn't so straightforward either:
It is assumed that anyone skilled enough to safely be able to take
care of their own updates would know how to disable the behaviour of
those updates being applied automatically.
+1
Those who aren't, won't, and will be better off for it.
+1
Connie, please defer changes in this area to SL6 at least. This has
been SL's default behaviour, and completely reasonable IMHO, since SL3
- and for 2.5 years now on SL5. No point in breaking things for sites
that adapted to the way things are in early 2007 - to please a single
SL user having a different preference for his PC at home and speaking
up now.
I have no intention of changing this behavior. All I was going to do is
see if there was a easier way to remove yumautoupdate .
Even Microsoft doesn't go to this trouble to force users to take updates.
If there was a menu item to "configure automatic updates," I would
applaud that, and I would have found it. My preferred choice would be
"Download all updates at 04:00 but do not apply any."
That's exactly what I do with Debian, and it's what I do with CentOS
where up2date is available. In each case, I simply added a cron job.
As I've implied already, if I'm running an Internet-facing web server,
timely application of security fixes is important. For a development
system, the only fixes that are urgent are those that impede my
development, so integer-overflows causing a crash (as in the python
updates) might matter, but security is addressed by other means.
Even with a mission-critical internet-facing web server, I'd not want
random updates occurring at strange times. The time for applying updates
is when time is scheduled to do them. If there is going to be any
interruption to service, let's schedule it for a time when it's least
harmful. Let's schedule it for when someone with the skills to get the
system back up is available, just in case.
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John
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