Re: Apt autoupdates

[Suren Karapetyan <surenkarapetyan gmail com>]

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> * Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org> [20080503 17:47]:
>   
> > Suren Karapetyan wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Should I file a bug?
> > > Cause it's really annoying... It installs a new init script without any 
> > > notice, makes it run by default and makes it update your system... without 
> > > asking you.
> > >       
> > Yeah. You should file a bug report.
> >     
>
> I was under the impression that this is what 'pinning' packages was
> available for. I don't see this as a bug but as expected
> behaviour. After all, we do expect yum and it's tools up update
> all available packages unless we tell it not to.
>
> Now, if the packages were pinned, and the update script went ahead and
> updated them anyway, that would be a bug.
>
> /Anders
>
>   
We expect "yum update" to update all packages.
But we (or at least me) don't expect yum (nor even yum-updatesd) to 
update all packages nightly by default.
Agree about pinning, but pinning doesn't work well for rawhide cause 
especially during the first half of rawhide development I would have 
50%+ packages pinned.
I have only one PC at home so it needs to be at least remotely stable :)