A clarrification and an apology

[Rahul Sundaram]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

> Let me explain it to you. The old crontab entry did the automatic
> update. For me that is not what I want to do because things can get
> updated that you don't want to have update. For example when I
> reinstalled GNOME I had a problem that beagle was updated. Or a kernel
> you don't want to have updated. The present system has an improvement.
> You can get e-mail of the updating mistakes. Ok, by then its too late
> but at least you find out.

You can specify excludes which the notification system does use.

> 
> As an alternative you can have the balloon come up interrupting your
> work telling you there are updates. Maybe I did not look hard enough but
> I could find no way to tell the balloon notification I did not want to
> update except to wait for it to tell me what updates it had for me which
> sometimes takes awhile and then hit quit. This is a very annoying
> feature we can do with out. I can't imagine anyone wanting their work
> interrupted with a update notification that has to be dealt. with.
> 
> Am I missing something or do you know something I have missed. 

You can file enhancement requests in http://bugzilla.redhat.com. The 
current system is much more flexible inherently. man yum-updatesd.conf 
and you can find options where it was harder to manipulate a cron job.

Rahul