migrating to xorg (yum bug)
Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Sat Mar 27 17:24:40 UTC 2004
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:16:54PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > This looks to me like a bug in yum. It should not try to be
> > interactive if stdin is not coming from tty. If it should then
> > assume automatically an anwer "y" in an absence of other information
> > (configuration or a command line) this is a good question. I would
> > be inclined to answer yes to that but it can be argued that this is
> > not safe.
> >
> > Yes, I know that there is '-y' command line option and
> > "assume-yes".
>
> -y is what you're supposed to do and NO assuming yes w/o it explicitly
> being passed in as an option is NOT safe. If you're going to piping
> output to yum use -y, that's the answer, there.
Well, ok, then automatically assume in circumstances above that
the answer is NO unless a config file says otherwise. It could
display some warning to that effect. Bailing out with a backtrace
does not look like the right action.
Michal
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