That is what I do. I have a local repo that I sync. Workstations only have the local repo enabled. After I'm satisfied the updates cause no pain I let the rest update. Now my users never bother to update so I end up going around when their are other issues and update as I go. I just wanted to know if there was an easier way. dnf-automatic looks small enough that I could modify for my purpose.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 8:10 PM Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote: > On 9/19/18 4:45 PM, Louis Garcia wrote: > > I handle hundreds of workstations, I am not about to manually update > > everyone. dnf-automatic the best choice right now. > > Go right ahead. I'm just warning you. > > I managed 1500-3000 systems in multiple datacenters world wide and at > least that many additional VMs. Most were under Puppet or Ansible and > they were regularly audited so I generally knew what they had installed. > > I'm just saying that I wouldn't permit automatic upgrades unless I'd > vetted those upgrades manually on test machines that represented the > targets involved. I even disabled automatic updates to things like > docker and kubernetes (which do their own updates outside of dnf/yum) so > they wouldn't break (and brother, were there ever been some MASSIVE > screwups there). Even with all those precautions, I was bitten. Hard. > Multiple times. Not fun. Not in the least. > > Do what you wish, just be bloody careful about it. That's all I'm > saying. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Cuteness can be overcome through sufficient bastardry - > - --Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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