Yum y updating of a PRODUCTION WebServer

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:56:29 +0100, Michael Heiming thoughtfully

#1 The OP asked if it is better to disable automatic yum updates to avoid potential problems to his production system. As I and others pointed out in their replies the answer is yes.

#2 Despite his name the OP is running a PRODUCTION system. I buttume he knows a little about security and security updates.

While yum resolves dependencies for updated packages it doesn't resolve kernel dependent modules not updated like NTFS.

When Yum updates or installs it downloads those packages, headers and updates symbolic links etc. and that will cause minor errors if the latest kernel update is not running.

I never installed gaim but yum update installed the updated gaim package. I had to manually remove gaim from my system post yum update. There are other questionable packages.

See previous comment about non Yum modules like NTFS and problems found when not running the latest kernel updated on the system.

If you read my original reply I said automatic kernel updates can be turned off in yum (like in up2date) which is not true but one can --exclude kernel* to exclude kernel updates. That reduces potential kernel problems like the kernel that end cdrecord for ordinary users.

As I said not a problem turning off yum auto updates and preferred for a production system.