Description of problem: With a replacement for yum-cron rewritten in Python I do no see any way to configure what extra parameters pass to an executing yum. Myself on different machines I am using at least the following: - --skip-broken - a list of packages NOT to be automatically updated - a list of repositories to include/exclude changing dynamically depending on which network a given machine happens to be connected when a yum cronjob is running. Up to now all of the above was quite trivial. Quite possible others will have different list of requirements. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.4.3-47.fc19
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With the addition of [base] to the yum-cron.conf many of these options (and others) can be configured in that file. I can't speak to the suitibility for your use case.
(In reply to jcpunk from comment #2) > With the addition of [base] to the yum-cron.conf many of these options (and > others) can be configured in that file. AFAICT _none_ of specific points raised in the original report is addressed by the current yum-cron.conf.
(In reply to Michal Jaegermann from comment #0) > - --skip-broken Add skip_broken=true to the [base] section of yum-cron.conf > - a list of packages NOT to be automatically updated Add exclude=what blah foo to the [base] section of yum-cron.conf > - a list of repositories to include/exclude changing dynamically depending > on which network a given machine happens to be connected when a yum cronjob > is running. This is somewhat harder, but a patch adding an option to enable/disable known repos. would likely be accepted upstream (Eg. allowing you to enable updates-testing). But it can still be done somewhat by changing yum_config_file in the main section, and having that setup so that different repos. are included (I understand this is far from optimal though). > Up to now all of the above was quite trivial. Quite possible others will > have different list of requirements. The old yum-cron was basically a single line in cron calling yum with -y, so at worst you can still do that (there was a bit more to it, but not enough that people didn't just write it themselves anyway before). If you have other requests though, or want to talk about the enable/disable repos. thing, it's probably better to bring them up on the mailing list.
(In reply to James Antill from comment #4) > (In reply to Michal Jaegermann from comment #0) > > - --skip-broken > > Add skip_broken=true to the [base] section of yum-cron.conf > > > - a list of packages NOT to be automatically updated > > Add exclude=what blah foo to the [base] section of yum-cron.conf Ah, no. You see, that is the point. What you suggest hides excluded packages from _any_ updates and not only automatic ones performed by yum cron. That is far from the same thing. You really think that adding "exclude=kernel*" to yum.conf would be a great idea? If not then I rest my case. The same applies in a different extent to other configuration changes. For example with "old" yum-cron I was using different set of repositories if I detected that I am on a local network (or more precisely - local repos with the highest priorities were conditionally showing up too, automagically, on machines which one day could be here and the next one somewhere else). If I could script a dynamic yum configuration switching based on a broad criteria that would likely cover all my use cases but currently I do not see how to do that for yum-cron only either. If I need to perform such mods manually then just deinstalling yum-cron is simpler. Another option is to revert to an older version and add "exclude=yum-cron" in yum.conf.
> What you suggest hides excluded packages from _any_ updates and not only automatic ones performed by yum cron. It was suggested that these excludes be added to yum-cron.conf, not yum.conf my BZ #999150 shows this behavior added to yum cron
(In reply to Pat Riehecky from comment #6) > > It was suggested that these excludes be added to yum-cron.conf, not yum.conf > > my BZ #999150 shows this behavior added to yum cron My bad; but ... where this is documented? Surely not in 'man yum-cron' and even comments in /etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf do not suggest that such possibility may exist or, important too, for how long. Not mentioning a (non)existence of hooks allowing adjustments depending on dynamic criteria. Morevoer - AFAICS if I want, say, not to run 0yum-hourly.cron I do not have "config way" even to achieve that.
Hi, I believe this has been in yum-cron.conf for some time: > [base] > # This section overrides yum.conf > ... I've also considered the "enabled=0/1" option exactly to be able to turn off yum-cron-hourly. http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2014-January/010504.html Another possibility is to fork yum-cron-hourly.service from yum-cron-hourly.service, so we'd have two services to be enabled/disabled independently. Maybe that's better solution..
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Hi, This is still a problem in both latest Fedora and RHEL 7 The possibility to enable and disable repos would be great at least.