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. -- Steven Haigh Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Fax: (03) 8338 0299