On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:49 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> 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.
>
and exclude runs when you do things like:
yum list foo
feels a bit silly to add a package to the transaction, there.
-sv
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