[Yum] yum-updates.d new features?

James Antill james-yum at and.org
Thu Sep 19 14:37:04 UTC 2013


Ian Mortimer <i.mortimer at uq.edu.au> writes:

> On 17/09/13 06:11, James Antill wrote:
>
>>   One problem is that there's currently no single point where it'd be
>> obvious to run this kind of time consuming logic, so we'd have to tie
>> it to primary download and the user would have to suck up the time
>> it'd take ... or rely on something running in yum-cron/etc.
>
> Would it be possible to have it disabled by default with an option to
> enable it for those that need it.

 Having an option is pretty std. for any yum feature like this. Which
way the default goes would usually depend on how useful it is vs. how
much it effects other stuff (Eg. slowdown).

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org


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