2013/7/31 Vincent Liggio <[email protected]> > How is having it on by default a safe setting? Any sysadmin running > Linux should know how to update. SL is not a release for your average > user, it's for the scientific community. If I wanted an OS designed for > non-admins, I'd run Ubuntu. >
Sorry, but this simply false. Every system should, by default, install security patches automatically after standard installation. Systems which are not patched are not an option and not every admin is working on a daily basis on the systems. If the admin decide not to use it, he should disable this feature but it shouldn't be the default setting. And there are bugs in various software out there (such as ypbind) which > are not fixed in the current release and so having autoupdate step on > critical packages is bad. > If you setup a chain with test servers, quality acceptance servers and production servers, you can disable this feature and build you own controlled process around the updates. You can also disable this feature already in the kickstart. Otherwise you simply use the yum rollback feature. Regards Thomas
