There are already plans to add groups commands to the new version of yum-cron;
they should eliminate the need for you to hack around the configuration
scripts. Also, the way the new version of yum-cron sends emails is completely
different from the old version, and should go a long way toward reducing
verbosity and unnecessary messages.
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Nick Jacek
----- Original Message -----
> With regards to yum-cron, I just wanted make a couple of comments.
>
> I have always replaced the default yum-cron update script with one
> that
> has several groupinstall calls. I have several local package groups
> which I maintain, and if I need to add a package to a certain class
> of
> machines, I just add it to the groups.xml file.
>
> This causes two problems:
>
> With the yum in F17 and the one that was pushed as an update to F16,
> there's no provided mechanism to override the yum scripts. They're
> in
> /usr/share and aren't marked as configuration files, so changes get
> wiped out.
>
> I hacked around this by sticking this in /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron:
>
> SCRIPTDIR=/etc/yum-cron
> YUMSCRIPT=${SCRIPTDIR}/${ACTION}.yum
>
> then copying everything from /usr/share/yum-cron to /etc/yum-cron
> and editing the file I need to change.
>
> This does work fine. Unfortunately it also causes yum-cron to spam
> me
> nightly because there are errors that yum produces even when run
> quietly. The messages are of the following two types:
>
> Warning: Group arabic-support does not have any packages.
> Package ibus-m17n-1.3.3-11.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest
> version
>
> And arabic-support definitely has packages, though they're all
> already
> installed. When yum-cron was a separate package, I just patched the
> script to grep these out.
>
> So, some questions:
> Is there a better way to keep everything in a group installed
> automatically without having to go through this?
>
> If not, please consider a reasonable override mechanism in yum-cron,
> and
> perhaps a way to eliminate excess verbosity from yum.
>
> - J<
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