Description of problem: With previous versions of Fedora, I could just turn the yum service on and enjoy an always-updated machine. With FC6, that never happens. The yum service is replaced by yum-updatesd. So I turned the service on and only weeks later found that I'm not getting any automatic updates. Yikes! Neither are many of my friends that I installed FC6 are getting them... So I found /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf and made it automatically install updates. Still, what I got instead was a stale yum process eating 200MB of memory for hours or even days. Sorry if it looks like a rant, but it's a real problem. Hope it's been fixed.
This is still a problem for me with yum-updatesd-3.1.6-1.fc7. When I run pup, I get updates, but I am never notified about updates by the panel applet or by email even though I have "emit_via = dbus email" in yum-updatesd.conf.
Yes, it's broken as a HELL ! Never works like expected. I see updates as aplet notification, when i log into GNOME, but, my comp is running in gnome even 5 days or more and i never get info about updates,even some are available - until logout from GNOME and login again - or restart yum-updatesd, and maybe then i recive info about update. Gosh, what a superb functionality - maybe works, maybe not - who cares ? run_interval = 600 updaterefresh = 300 emit_via = dbus do_update = no do_download = no do_download_deps = no
Please try yum-updatesd in rawhide. Reopen this bug if it does not fix your concerns. Keep in mind - it's a rewrite from the ground up. :)
Is rawhide a separate repository from updates-testing? I thought they were the same, but now I wonder. I've been running yum-updatesd from updates-testing, and it does not fix the problem that yum-updatesd does not update anything.