I agree with Steven.

I think if you don't want updates from a specific repo you should just
change that repo to "enabled=0" in it's configuration file.

Travis


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 06/05/14 06:56, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> > On 05/05/2014 03:42 PM, Mattieu Puel wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I would like to propose for review a patch adding a feature to
> >> yum-autoupdate.
> >>
> >> The need is to enable/disable desired repositories during yum-autoupdate
> >> execution.
> >>
> >> For instance, we want to enable SL updates while discarding the
> >> repositories added after installation by the server end users
> >> - which are not necessarily reliable for automatic updates.
> >>
> >> We added two options to the sysconfig file in order to achieve
> >> this (ENABLEREPO and DISABLEREPO) which basically contain what
> >> --enablerepo and --disablerepo yum options would.
> >>
> >> Do you see other/better means to do that ?
> >> Do you think it's a desirable feature, worth merging ?
> >>
> >> Attached is a patch based on latest 2-6.3 version.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >
> > Its certainly interesting, anyone else care to weigh in?
>
> I think this is the wrong approach. If the repos are of 'questionable'
> quality for every day use then they should be disabled (enabled=0) in
> the repo file.
>
> If you want to use them manually (which from what I understand is why
> Mattieu wrote the patch?) they should be enabled with the yum
> --enablerepo option. ie:
>         yum --enablerepo=dogerepo install wow much-broken
>
> If seems like the patch / new feature is more to add a broken workflow
> to autoupdate.
>
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