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?

Pat

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