Bug 445894 - yum.cron should run earlier
Summary: yum.cron should run earlier
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum-cron
Version: 11
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: 2008-05-09 17:18 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2009-10-27 07:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.9.1-1.fc11
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-10-27 06:45:04 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Use lock file instead of directory (655 bytes, patch)
2008-11-02 16:44 UTC, Milan Kerslager
no flags Details | Diff

Description Orion Poplawski 2008-05-09 17:18:22 UTC
Description of problem:

I propose moving /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron to /etc/cron.daily/0yum.cron to run
before makewhatis, mlocate, prelink, rpm, etc.  Seems like we want to run those
on the newly updated system.
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-cron-0.8.2

Comment 1 Habig, Alec 2008-05-09 17:46:45 UTC
Although it would certainly be nice to have things work in that order, I'm not
sure how well this would work.  yum-cron runs yum with a default random wait of
120 minutes (-R 120), to avoid every yum-cron box in the world hammering the
mirrors in synch.  

So, if the /etc/cron.daily jobs run in serial, all the other housekeeping tasks
will run randomly late as well, a behavior I'm loath to unilaterally inflict on
everyone else's packages.

If they run in parallel, then this change has no effect, as yum will be sitting
waiting to roll the dice while the other tasks run anyway.

Looking at /usr/bin/run-parts, it looks like they go in serial, although I'm not
usually up to watch the system at that hour and verify this.


Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2008-05-09 22:49:46 UTC
Well, there already is 000-delay.cron in cron.daily which provides a variable
delay, though not as much as 120 minutes.  I run with -R 1 here because of that.
 I really don't think there is any problem with having the other stuff delayed.

Comment 3 Milan Kerslager 2008-11-02 16:24:28 UTC
Please remove unnecessary delay from yum as there is /etc/cron.daily/000-delay.cron from crontabs package (ramdom delay within 1 hour).

Then please revert back to older name (/etc/cron.daily/000-yum.cron) to make sure update went first and then all subsequent actions.

Comment 4 Milan Kerslager 2008-11-02 16:44:36 UTC
Created attachment 322229 [details]
Use lock file instead of directory

Comment 5 Milan Kerslager 2008-11-02 16:48:39 UTC
Sorry. The patch from comment #4 is for the bug #469566.

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Comment 7 Habig, Alec 2008-12-15 15:56:57 UTC
Changing version to F10 since this bug is still relevant to that release.

Comment 8 Milan Kerslager 2009-09-30 11:29:18 UTC
The bug still persist in F11. Changing version.

Comment 9 Habig, Alec 2009-10-06 22:20:04 UTC
A test build of yum to try which hopefully resolves this bug:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=135389

Let me know if this either works or causes more trouble.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-10-07 13:40:29 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc11

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2009-10-07 13:40:45 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc10

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-10-07 13:41:00 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc12

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2009-10-09 03:37:56 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-cron'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10340

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2009-10-09 03:42:13 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.0-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-cron'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-10358

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2009-10-14 13:46:09 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc11

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2009-10-14 13:46:25 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc10

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2009-10-14 13:46:39 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc12

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2009-10-15 22:35:02 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-cron'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-10519

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2009-10-15 22:41:05 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-cron'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10541

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2009-10-27 06:44:42 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2009-10-27 07:21:24 UTC
yum-cron-0.9.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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