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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
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.
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.
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).
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Maintainer, ping?
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).
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