Now Fedora comes with “PackageKit”, a graphical tool for automated updates. However, the packagekit updates need the approval from the user and also a graphical interface.
If you need to keep updated at all cost, and you don’t have enough time to verify the graphical PackageKit applet, maybe you’ll need yum-cron
yum-cron is good for unattended servers or “init 3” server, i mean, servers without a graphical interface.
If there is no human control on updates, a badly update could be installed (its rare, but happens)… However the security risk of running without updates, is worst.
Commands…
For PackageKit removal:
| su -c “yum erase PackageKit” |
For yum-cron installation:
| $ su – # yum install yum-cron # chkconfig yum-cron on # service yum-cron start |
And… That’s all. Everyday, about 4am, your system will be updated. Remember to keep the server/computer connected to the internet all the day.
Check this file: /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron if you need to configure the yum options, by example, adding things like –skip-broken in order to avoid whole update fail on dependency error.