On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:26:43AM -0400, Radek Holy wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin(a)scrye.com>
> To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 5:01:45 PM
> Subject: Re: dnf interactive config file updates
>
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:45:41 +0100
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)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 ?
Yes, correct.
> sudo dnf remove python3-dnf-plugins-extras-rpmconf
>
> I agree it's behavior isn't good there. Bug(s) filed?
Yes, please. Against the DNF's community plugins (dnf-plugins-extras), please.
And can you please also immediately file a Bugzilla (if it does not exist) next time you
hit a bug?
I almost always do.
But what's the bug here? The feature itself or the fact that -y
doesn't make it go away?
Rich.
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