Solved Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated

[DustinB3403]

Just a weird question, as it has been more than a few days and I have no updates for my CentOS 7 system that is running Snipe-IT.

I would think there would be security updates etc.

Am I missing something?

[scottalanmiller]

Not very often. Since it is patching only, and a typical RHEL / CentOS install is super minimal with very little surface area, updates are pretty rare. You'll often go weeks without any at all.

[scottalanmiller]

But they are not scheduled like Windows. So you don't have that "get the list on Tuesday" effect. They come when they come, you get them as soon as they are ready. But there aren't very many since it's a very old system without feature updates.

[DustinB3403]

That'll work, just seemed off. I check daily for anything to make sure I don't miss anything critical.

It's been a while. Would be great if there was some sort of schedule, at least the "hey we might have updates on Tuesdays, check than."

[CloudKnight]

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

[DustinB3403]

@stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

[CloudKnight]

@dustinb3403 Gotcha

[JaredBusch]

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

[DustinB3403]

@jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

That does seem useful.

[JaredBusch]

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

That does seem useful.

No timers to set like needs handled with dnf-automatic just install and edit the conf file.

[DustinB3403]

@jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

That does seem useful.

No timers to set like needs handled with dnf-automatic just install and edit the conf file.

Installing it and configuring it now...

[JaredBusch]

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@jaredbusch said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@dustinb3403 said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

@stuartjordan said in Weird question - How often are CentOS packages updated:

Don't you want to use a cron so you don't have to check daily?

I have other processes that require manual intervention, so checking only takes a moment.

I would still use yum-cron to do it. Just don't tell it to install if you don't want it to. You will still get the email when things are available.

That does seem useful.

No timers to set like needs handled with dnf-automatic just install and edit the conf file.

Installing it and configuring it now...

If you do yes / yes / no it will even have them downloaded for you. not that that is much of an issue generally.