Yum and Yumex

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 4 20:39:46 UTC 2008



On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> said:
>> My expectation was that -y was just OK'ing a list of updates, not bypassing
>> security checks.
>
> Well, the documentation says -y means "assume that the answer to any
> question which would be asked is yes", so I don't see why you'd think
> otherwise (since yum only asks yes/no questions).

I like Alan's suggestions. I would happily see code added to the 
protect-packages plugin which asks you random math questions to make sure 
you're paying attention.

:)

-sv




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