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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-8905
2009-08-25 03:10:57
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Name : yum-cron
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 0.8.4
Release : 2.fc11
URL :
http://linux.duke.edu/yum/
Summary : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job
Description :
These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. They
originated in yum-2.6.1-0.fc5, but were left out of FC6's yum.
Install this package if you want auto yum updates nightly via cron
rather than the newer yum-updatesd daemon.
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Update Information:
deal with stale lockdirs, bug 515814
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Aug 21 2009 Alec Habig <ahabig(a)umn.edu> - 0.8.4-2
- pushing to updates-testing to resolve bug 515814, dealing with stale lockfiles
* Wed Aug 5 2009 Alec Habig <ahabig(a)umn.edu> - 0.8.4-1
- deal with stale lockdirs
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #515814 - /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron has broken locking that prevent updates to
be done
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515814
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update yum-cron' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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