Yum and Yumex

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:31:42 -0800,
>  Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
>>
>> In some respects, the ability to specify "-y" on things such as yum (or
>> fsck, for that matter) is essentially taking the training wheels off.
>> Don't do it unless you're prepared for the (potentially dire)
>> consequences.  It's up to you to wear the helmet.
>
> It can be surprising what it asks for though. When I did my first update
> with rpm fusion I had forgotten to import the rpm fusion keys. But using
> yum with the -y option had it do the update despite this and the message
> indicated it did the import as well (though I haven't verified it).
> My expectation was that -y was just OK'ing a list of updates, not bypassing
> security checks.

-y means 'to any question you are prompted for, answer 'yes''

from the man page:

-y  Assume  yes;  assume that the answer to any question which would
               be asked is yes.


does that help?

-sv