Bug 486416 - Incorrect information about automatically installed updates
Summary: Incorrect information about automatically installed updates
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: user-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Matthew Daniels
QA Contact: Jared Smith
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Reported: 2009-02-19 17:15 UTC by Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak
Modified: 2010-03-07 22:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-03-07 22:37:41 UTC
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Description Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2009-02-19 17:15:35 UTC
Description of problem:

The following two pages are out-of-date:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/sn-updating-your-system.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/SoftwareManagementGuide/UpdateWithYum

They state that there is a service named /etc/init.d/yum, which is not true.

The current way of automatically downloading and installing updates in the nightly cron is apparently the following one:

yum install yum-cron
/sbin/chkconfig yum-cron on

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Comment 1 Paul W. Frields 2009-02-20 12:55:51 UTC
This guide does need to be updated badly.  Until it is, the link should be removed from the sidebar in the docs.fp.o website.  I can take care of the latter part; the Docs Project should take a look at this guide and slot into their task list.  I'd argue that it's even a bit more important than any general user guide, because this is one of the core tasks that all users need to understand how to complete.

Comment 3 eric 2009-02-20 14:18:20 UTC
There are additional ways of automatically applying patches now that PackageKit is on the street.

Good golly these guides are old.  Wasn't the SMG folded into another guide?

Comment 4 eric 2009-02-20 14:29:24 UTC
danielsmw will try to fold this information into the User Guide which will keep it updated.

Comment 5 eric 2009-06-30 15:28:10 UTC
This is being moved to the User Guide for further development.  The Software Management Guide will be moved to the wiki for update.

Comment 6 eric 2009-07-30 00:38:31 UTC
Changed from desktop-user-guide to user-guide to help reduce confusion.

Comment 7 Paul W. Frields 2010-03-07 22:37:41 UTC
This has been folded into the user guide already AFAICT.


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