Question System updates

[ivanes82]

Server operating system version

AlmaLinux 8.10

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.66 #1

Running sudo yum update from the terminal gives me these two updates:

epel-release noarch 8-21.el8 epel 24 k
xvidcore x86_64 1.3.7-9.el8 epel 268 k

These do not appear in the plesk update installer. Why don't they appear there to update them through plesk and ask if it is safe to update them from the terminal, or it may break something.

Thank you very much.

 

[scsa20]

By default, safe updates is enabled which plesk will only do updates from where a package is installed from so some packages will be skipped over and not show in the update screen (such as epel and xvidcore). You can disable the safe update to show all the updates if you wish though. I, personally, just let plesk do it's thing and at least once a month I go into the terminal and manually do full updates.

 

[ivanes82]

By default, safe updates is enabled which plesk will only do updates from where a package is installed from so some packages will be skipped over and not show in the update screen (such as epel and xvidcore). You can disable the safe update to show all the updates if you wish though. I, personally, just let plesk do it's thing and at least once a month I go into the terminal and manually do full updates.

Thank you very much for your response. It is a bit clearer, but I still have a doubt: is it safe to update those packages manually? If by activating secure updates, they are not updated, I wonder if I should update manually.

Thank you very much.

 

[scsa20]

Honestly there's no guarantee that even safe updates is safe as anything could and can happen with updates. Safe updates just tries to make sure that the updates is coming from plesks itself to be tested in a wide array of systems but they can't test in every single configurations.

As for manually updating, considering I've done manual updates at least once a month and have not ran into any issues I'd say it's fine but it also depends on YOUR use case. In my case, I just run a small server with a few sites hosted for myself and a few friends. I have 2 backups done by my vps and I have 2 weeks worth of plesk backups backing up to an aws s3 bucket so if anything happens it's whatever and can just restore even if it means it takes me a day since, again, it's whatever. If you are needing to make sure you are always online then keeping it at safe updates will probably be the better choice for you. Again, it all depends on your use case so I can't tell you which way you should do it as it's for you to decide.