On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:23, R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > Anyway, when I installed yum, I didn't imagine it would automatically update > > the system over night. Wouldn't it we safer to have a "check-update" operation > > instead of an "update", and leave it to the user to change it? > > This crossed the freshrpms list ... I had discussed this with > seth a few evenings ago as well. > > I suggested that a more 'correct' default install should have > the following attributes: > -- disable kernel* and perhaps glibc-* by default Not sure that qualifies as "least surprise" > -- install with the cronned yum process off, requiring the > administrator to chkconfig it on in a given runlevel I agree here. > -- pull, but not apply automatically non-signed packages or > packages without a known signature already on file. You can fill up disks with this - a notification seems reasonable as something to do, though. -sv
