dnf interactive config file updates

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:45:41 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> I see that dnf has sprung apt-style configuration file messages:
> 
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>   $ sudo dnf install mingw32-srvany
>   Using metadata from Mon Apr 13 13:56:00 2015 (1:43:07 hours old)
>   Package mingw32-srvany-1.0-15.20150115gitfd659e77.fc23.noarch is
> already installed, skipping. Dependencies resolved.
>   Nothing to do.
>   Configuration file '/etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth'
>   lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  19 Feb 21
> 2012 /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth -> fingerprint-auth-ac -rw-r--r--. 1
> root root 701 May  9  2012 /etc/pam.d/fingerprint-auth.rpmnew
> 
>    ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
>      What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>       Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>       N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>         D     : show the differences between the versions
>         M     : merge configuration files
>         Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>         S     : skip this file
>    The default action is to keep your current version.
>   *** aliases (Y/I/N/O/D/M/Z/S) [default=N] ? 
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> In fact I _didn't_ change that file, so the message is wrong.
> 
> I suspect we'll end up with Debian interactive installs, which as a
> Debian user I find to be a regression.
> 
> - 'dnf -y install' doesn't suppress the message.
> 
> - In fact you cannot even kill it with ^C.  You have to killall -9
> dnf.
> 
> This happens on dozens of file now, every time I use dnf.  Make it go
> away!

I suspect this is caused by the 'rpmconf' plugin ? 

sudo dnf remove python3-dnf-plugins-extras-rpmconf

I agree it's behavior isn't good there. Bug(s) filed?

kevin
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