Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff,

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
email builder wrote: Do you know how to determine which repo a particular package is from? For example, when I do yum info against clamav (which isn't receiving automatic updates), it just says Repo: installed. I don't know what repo it comes from. yum list clamav --showduplicates

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Email builder wrote on Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:46:55 -0700 (PDT): then the outstanding question is how to figure out why certain packages are not being updated. Well, first action: did you actually check with the repo that there is a newer package? Just because a package isn't updated doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
then the outstanding question is how to figure out why certain packages are not being updated. Well, first action: did you actually check with the repo that there is a newer package? Yes. I'm not sure why would you think otherwise...? Just because a package isn't updated doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
Do you know how to determine which repo a particular package is from? For example, when I do yum info against clamav (which isn't receiving automatic updates), it just says Repo: installed. I don't know what repo it comes from. yum list clamav --showduplicates should show

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
It does look like updates are happening, but it's not clear to me by whom. do_update is set to no, but notification is by dbus, so I assumed that dbus is notifying another process to do the actual updates. Is there a way I can track that down? Are you sure the updates

[CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
Hello, Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but I also notice that yum will not

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but I also notice that yum

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simple answer: yum update will update *all* packages in the repo's that are *enabled*. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
email builder wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:14 PM, email builder emailbuilde...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused  as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by  yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from  time to time that

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but I also notice that yum will

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but I also notice

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:40 PM, email builder emailbuilde...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused   as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded  automatically by  yum and what will not. I  see in our logwatch messages from  time

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but I also