[SM-Discuss] base system checking?

Jeremy Kolb jkolb at brandeis.edu
Tue Mar 22 14:10:23 EST 2005


Andrew wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:50:45AM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> 
>>Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>>
>>>Why on today's sorcery update (devel) has it decided to test 84 
>>>different packages?  From a users point of view it's very annoying and 
>>>time consuming.  Shouldn't this be moved somewhere else?
>>>
>>>Jeremy
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>>Ok I discovered how to turn it off.  Shouldn't these things either 
>>default to off or something?  I don't like updating programs and it 
>>changing my preferences.  Maybe some way to alert the user that a new 
>>option is available? I don't really know.
>>
> 
> It is off by default by popular request has been for a long long time.
> 
>  grep UPDATEFIX /etc/sorcery/config 
>             UPDATEFIX=${UPDATEFIX:=off}
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Hm mine magically enabled itself then.  I'm not sure why.

Jeremy



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