F10: Unrequested automatic installation

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Robert Locke <lists at ralii.com> wrote:
> This seems unusual:
>
> Fresh install of F10 (from DVD) couple of days after release (28-Nov).
>
> I have added rpmfusion and livna repositories when the install was done.
>
> This morning after booting and logging in, a little bubble opened in the
> lower right hand corner that said some updates were complete.  I had not
> requested any updates.  Previous updates had all been done by me typing
> "yum update" in a gnome-terminal.
>
> Reviewing /var/log/yum.log to see what was installed I find the
> following:
>
> Dec 05 08:02:19 Installed: createrepo-0.9.6-3.fc10.noarch
> Dec 05 08:02:20 Installed: 1:anaconda-yum-plugins-1.0-3.fc10.noarch
> Dec 05 08:02:21 Installed: preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc10.noarch
>
> Why were these packages automatically installed without me requesting
> them?

The same happened here. That was why I sent to the list the post "How
can one turn off automatic updates on F10?". Was this unrequested
automatic installation episodic? Or should one configure something to
avoid this automatic installations?

Paul