On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 20:38 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:07:53AM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > The intent of this yum plugin is to eliminate this bootstrap as a
> > separate step. The intent is that whenever the user does a yum upgrade,
> > that if there are any new firmware packages in the repository that were
> > not previously on their system, they will get automatically
> > bootstrapped.
>
>
> Shouldn't it only do this if an option ("--check-new-firmware", or
> something) is given? When I'm applying security updates is the last time I
> want random new hardware support installed.I think maybe a more obvious change is to only add the fireware packages if the user has done "yum update" without any package name arguments (or with arguments that match the firmware package names). The security plugin will do the right thing, as on an update it runs from preresolv (which is after the packages are added in exclude). However AIUI some of the other "exclude plugins" just run from the exclude hook, so they'll be in a race to see who wins. -- James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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