On 5/4/08, Anders Karlsson <anders(a)trudheim.co.uk> wrote:
* Suren Karapetyan <surenkarapetyan(a)gmail.com> [20080503
20:51]:
> Anders Karlsson wrote:
>> I was under the impression that this is what 'pinning' packages was
>> available for. I don't see this as a bug but as expected
>> behaviour. After all, we do expect yum and it's tools up update
>> all available packages unless we tell it not to.
>>
>> Now, if the packages were pinned, and the update script went ahead and
>> updated them anyway, that would be a bug.
>
> We expect "yum update" to update all packages.
> But we (or at least me) don't expect yum (nor even yum-updatesd) to update
> all packages nightly by default.
> Agree about pinning, but pinning doesn't work well for rawhide cause
> especially during the first half of rawhide development I would have 50%+
> packages pinned.
> I have only one PC at home so it needs to be at least remotely stable :)
I am not 100% sure, as I don't currently have a Debian based system to
check with, but from memory, this is what a Debian based system
does, have a cronjob that does the nightly updates.
Well I do have a Debian4 system handy.
Debian has the cron jobs for apt scheduled in daily, but the default
configuration (which is done in /etc/cron.daily/apt) has the
auto(update/upgrade) options turned off. So it doesn't even update the
package list, let alone the packages.
If so, the apt
package in Fedora just does what upstream (Debian) does, and we track
upstream closely, right?
Well of course we are :)
But this doesn't make sense in this case cause upstream of apt
(Debian) has nothing to do with Fedora or even rpms
The setting in /etc/sysconfig/apt would be something simple to carry a
separate patch for though. I'll shut up now. :)
and it [upstream] has nothing to do with /etc/sysconfig/apt cause
there is no sysconfig in Debian. So /etc/sysconfig/apt isn't a file
which should be PATCHED.
It's just a distro-specific configuration file which should be MODIFIED.
/Anders
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Suren