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    Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Not very often. Since it is patching only, and a typical RHEL / CentOS install is super minimal with very little surface area, updates are pretty rare. You'll often go weeks without any at all.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        But they are not scheduled like Windows. So you don't have that "get the list on Tuesday" effect. They come when they come, you get them as soon as they are ready. But there aren't very many since it's a very old system without feature updates.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          That'll work, just seemed off. I check daily for anything to make sure I don't miss anything critical.

          It's been a while. Would be great if there was some sort of schedule, at least the "hey we might have updates on Tuesdays, check than."

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          • CloudKnightC
            CloudKnight
            last edited by CloudKnight

            Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @CloudKnight
              last edited by

              @stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

              Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

              I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

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              • CloudKnightC
                CloudKnight @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @dustinb3403 Gotcha 🙂

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @DustinB3403
                  last edited by JaredBusch

                  @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                  @stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                  Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

                  I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

                  I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
                    last edited by DustinB3403

                    @jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                    @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                    @stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                    Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

                    I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

                    I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

                    0_1523897763552_6dab9e40-48dc-4161-a88b-bbdf3011fa5d-image.png

                    That does seem useful.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                      @jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                      @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                      @stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                      Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

                      I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

                      I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

                      0_1523897763552_6dab9e40-48dc-4161-a88b-bbdf3011fa5d-image.png

                      That does seem useful.

                      No timers to set like needs handled with dnf-automatic just install and edit the conf file.

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
                        last edited by

                        @jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                        @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                        @jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                        @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                        @stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                        Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

                        I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

                        I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

                        0_1523897763552_6dab9e40-48dc-4161-a88b-bbdf3011fa5d-image.png

                        That does seem useful.

                        No timers to set like needs handled with dnf-automatic just install and edit the conf file.

                        Installing it and configuring it now...

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                          @jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                          @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                          @jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                          @dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                          @stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

                          Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

                          I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

                          I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

                          0_1523897763552_6dab9e40-48dc-4161-a88b-bbdf3011fa5d-image.png

                          That does seem useful.

                          No timers to set like needs handled with dnf-automatic just install and edit the conf file.

                          Installing it and configuring it now...

                          If you do yes / yes / no it will even have them downloaded for you. not that that is much of an issue generally.

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