[Yum-devel] Please fix terrible interaction of yum-cron with yum-merge-conf

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:40:02PM +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> yum-cron is not a part of yum or yum-utils. it is a 3 party package.
> yum-merge-conf is a TYPE_INTERACTIVE plugin which means that it could 
> interact with the user, so if you want to yum from a cron job, you have 
> to only have TYPE_CORE plugins enabled.
> you can use 'yum --disable-plugin=merge-conf -y some action' in you 
> cronjob to disable the plugin.

I don't think this is the right solution. It doesn't matter that yum-cron is
a 3rd party package -- the problem would happen any time yum happens to be
run from cron or otherwise noninteractively. The plugin should act
gracefully in this situation.

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