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{ 2007 12 27 }

apticron equivalent in Fedora 8?

Perhaps my google-fu is failing. I can’t seem to find an equivalent to debian’s apticron in Fedora. My specific requirements are for a tool that:

  • shows what packages have updates available
  • shows what kind (eg. critical security, moderate security, bugfix) of update each package is
  • checks at user-configurable intervals
  • sends mail at user-configurable intervals
  • includes changelog or similar info in the email
  • plain text. I don’t want a GUI, nor do I need HTML prettification.

Does such an animal already exist? I’ve already had one person tell me I should cook it up with the python yum module. I can’t believe nobody has done this already.

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Posted by tarheelcoxn on Thursday, December 27, 2007, at 13:57 America/New_York. Filed under Linux, fedora, ubuntu. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. tarheelcoxn | 27 December 2007 at 14:18 America/New_York | Permalink

    Kevin pointed out that I can edit /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf to get what I want. specifically, I should set ‘emit_via = email’ instead of the default ‘emit_via = dbus’ for great update notification justice. :)

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