migrating to xorg (yum bug)
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Mar 27 17:16:54 UTC 2004
> This looks to me like a bug in yum. It should not try to be
> interactive if stdin is not coming from tty. If it should then
> assume automatically an anwer "y" in an absence of other information
> (configuration or a command line) this is a good question. I would
> be inclined to answer yes to that but it can be argued that this is
> not safe.
>
> Yes, I know that there is '-y' command line option and
> "assume-yes".
-y is what you're supposed to do and NO assuming yes w/o it explicitly
being passed in as an option is NOT safe. If you're going to piping
output to yum use -y, that's the answer, there.
-sv
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