On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:49:01PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: > >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29 > > The directions and tools are also entirely incompatible with older > versions of Scientific Linux, such as SL 6 or the still supported SL 5. >
(on-list reply) I think there is a misunderstanding. The intent of my instructions is to restore in SL7/CentOS7 the functionality that has been always present in SL5 and SL6, where yum-autoupdate was always present and is easy to enable via "chkconfig yum-autuopdate on": SL5: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27524 Dec 10 2014 6x/x86_64/os/Packages/yum-autoupdate-2-6.6.noarch.rpm SL6: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9111 Oct 8 2012 5x/x86_64/SL/yum-autoupdate-1.2-3.SL.noarch.rpm This package is absent in SL7 and CentOS7, so I have to pull it in from CERN linux CC-7. I agree it would have been cleaner to install the CC-7 yum repository, but that could have accidentally pulled some unwanted CERN packages. (to Nico) If you do not like the yum-autoupdate script, you do not have to use it, but there is no need to dump on the tool or/and on my instructions. > > ... Replacing a live, standard upstream kernel for such a small reason is > always a bad idea. ... > You are mistaken, my instructions do not replace the standard kernel. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
