Bug 325531 - yum-cron should use yum-updatesd --oneshot
Summary: yum-cron should use yum-updatesd --oneshot
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum-cron
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Habig, Alec
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-09 20:22 UTC by James Antill
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:20 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 17:27:01 UTC
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Description James Antill 2007-10-09 20:22:51 UTC
Description of problem:
 Newer versions of yum-updatesd have the ability to use a "run once and quit"
mode. yum-cron should depend on the newer yum-updatesd and use this functionality.
 This makes configuration identical, and automatically brings in any
improvements that yum-updatesd has/gets.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0:0.5-1.fc8

Additional info:
 Current f8 version of yum-updatesd that has this feature: 1:0.5-2.fc8

Comment 1 Habig, Alec 2007-10-11 16:30:48 UTC
Interesting idea - will go play with the new yum-updatesd and see how well it
works.  I'll admit that one of my first actions on a new Fedora system is "rpm
-e yum-updatesd", so as a result I've not kept on top of its progress.


Comment 2 Tim Niemueller 2007-12-18 00:46:42 UTC
This should be made optional though. On some machines we do not run yum-updatesd
because it is a memory hog and we need every byte and clock tick for experiments
running on the machines.

Comment 3 James Antill 2007-12-18 01:19:57 UTC
 With this config. yum-updatesd wouldn't run constantly, cron would just run
"yum-updatesd --onshot" instead of it's current approach of calling yum directly.
 The main benefits are that configuration for what gets downloaded etc. is all
in a single place, and the fact that "yum-updatesd-helper ..." is assumed to be
running non-interactivley while "yum ..." is mostly assumed to be interactive
(we can and do follow different code paths based on that).


Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 03:21:09 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-29 17:06:49 UTC
Maintainer, ping?

Comment 6 James Antill 2008-12-01 15:26:41 UTC
Damn, it's been over a year since this was opened.

 I looked at doing it a while ago now, the problem was that there is a lot of configuration for the current yum-cron which would either be ignored if you turned on the "use yum-updatesd" option, or would require writing out new yum-updatesd.conf files based on the yum-cron configuration.
 The other option is to only ever use yum-updatesd --oneshot, and thus. break the old configurations. But I didn't want to just do that, so I put it on the back burner (and then forgot about it).

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 22:55:38 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:27:01 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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