network manager, KDE and libudev

[John Summerfield]

David wrote:
> On 3/16/2009 6:13 PM, John Summerfield wrote:


> 
>> Perhaps there should be an "enable repo" command to avoid this:
> 
>> --- fedora.repo 2008-12-10 15:42:35.000000000 +0900
>> +++ fedora.repo.rpmnew  2008-11-07 05:06:38.000000000 +0900
>> @@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
>>  failovermethod=priority
> 
>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
> 
> 
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> 
>> -#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=$basearch
> 
>> -
>> -enabled=0
>> +enabled=1
>>  gpgcheck=1
>>  gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
> 
>> It could be run when installing the release file.
> 
>> The appropriate definition is the rpmnew file. I don't recall disabling
>> it, but originally I installed an Eight beta and the old definition for
>> the install media is present too. Early on, that would have sufficed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The .rpmnew feature is to protect your/your systems configuration files

I understand all that, I've been using RHL and its descendants since RHL 
3.0.3 - what is that, a decade or so?

There still isn't a good way to inform the administrator that this has 
been done. Flashing messages on the screen means they get scrolled off 
with any updates of size. Asking stupid questions (as Debian does) makes 
the update processes excessively interactive. Noting these things in a 
log file means the administrator has to know to look, and where to look.

mail to root should work if the alias has been set. A question during 
install could ensure it is.

My choice of a mirror should never be overturned, but enablements often 
should. If livna doesn't track rawhide or betas, then turning its repos 
on and off automatically is sensible, having it in the wrong state is 
troublesome.



> Another thought. The last, very last, update of a Rawhide turns it into
> a Release all by itself. Does here anyway and then I have to turn in
> back into a rawhide by hand.

Something of that sort happened. It might be during my last turn on 
rawhide I disabled the repo.



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