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Bug 919665

Summary:	Dead link in Install Guide pointing to yum update settings
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Bryan Sutherland <bryan.sutherland>
Component:	install-guide	Assignee:	Petr Bokoc <pbokoc>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Version:	devel	CC:	bobgus, dew, me, zach
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Description Bryan Sutherland 2013-03-09 11:14:09 UTC

Section 18.1 - Updating Your System, has a link pointing to a non-existent set of instructions for configuring daily updates with yum. The particular paragraph is:

"If your Fedora system has a permanent network connection, you may choose to enable daily system updates. To enable automatic updates, follow the instructions on the webpage http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/sn-updating-your-system.html."

Is anyone aware of where this doc set may have gone?

Comment 1 Jack Reed 2013-03-22 05:15:26 UTC

Hi James,

(You may not be the right person to consult about this, so feel free to forward this along if need be.)

Is there still a method for setting up daily system updates using yum?

The dead link Bryan has found used to point to this page: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Core/4/html/Software_Management_Guide/sn-updating-your-system.html

It offers a single command to update the system daily. This yum guide is no longer updated, so I could add such a command or procedure to the Installation Guide.

I've tested the old command in F18 and, unsurprisingly, it doesn't work. The /etc/ paths no longer exist.

The following wiki page is marked as old and hasn't been updated since 2008 either:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoUpdates

Are you able to offer an updated command, or a procedure if one isn't too cumbersome? Or should this just be avoided?

Comment 2 Pete Travis 2013-03-25 13:15:54 UTC

The [relatively] current System Administrator's Guide has an extensive section on yum[1] that we could refer users to for more than basic yum usage information.

Personally, I think that we do not need to cover automatic updating with yum in a guide. We generally encourage users to be aware and understanding of any changes made to their system that require escalated privileges, and our primary desktop environments are already updating the yum cache on a regular basis and alerting the user to available updates.



[1]http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html

Comment 3 Jack Reed 2013-03-26 00:49:19 UTC

Thanks for that insight, Pete. I agree. I'm going to cancel the needinfo and remove the paragraph on daily yum updates. I'll also change the reference to the non-existent yum guide to the Sys Admin Guide.

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