yum clean bug

Jarod Wilson lists at wilsonet.com
Sat Dec 10 17:11:24 UTC 2005


On Saturday 10 December 2005 00:37, seth vidal wrote:
> > Well, Seth has spoken on the topic and it seems that people have actually
> > found uses for this behavior. I'll update the manpage to refer to the
> > fact that the clean operations only operate on enabled repositories, end
> > of story, ok? Before this thread gets any more ridiculous than it already
> > is...
>
> How about we just say that all yum operations will only act on enabled
> repositories? Just so there is no doubt that disabled repos are not
> acted on.

How 'bout adding a config option to yum.conf? Default setting for the 
"cleanall" option could be "enabled-only", users could switch that to 
"nuke-everything", or something along those lines. Seems like a reasonable 
compromise that gives both sides of the fence what they want, no?

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com




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