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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Feb 07, Thomas Orgis [thomas-forum AT orgis.org] wrote:
> Am Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:28:17 -0600
> schrieb Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>: 
> > What about this instead.  It's very similar to yours but lets us remove
> > this after an acceptable time.  Also it still defaults the query to 'n'
> 
> I said my solution is not the prettiest one;-)
> So you make it only ask the new question if they are affected.
> And default to n, which has the effect that if they update unattendedly
> (like they did before), we make sure they have no shadowed passwords.
> Of course anyone who updates his box with open eyes (and PROMPT_TIMEOUT
> > 0) will see the new query and wonder why it's asked again.
> And hopefully read the message above the query.
> Then there are ppl who have sorcery update in a cron job. But as the
> bug reopener shows, if they are not totally crazy, they look at the
> logs / check the system from time to time.

Sorry but I'd rather piss off the ones that are doing unattended upgrades
on a choice-based distro than piss off the ones that expect us to do what
they tell us to do.  Yeah this one was our bug but if someone lets the core
system update unattended and ignores everything it asks and warns then they
should expect to have missed even an intentional query like "foo conflicts
with shadow, dispel shadow?".

> Anyway. I see that your mod means posing the extra question only if
> really needed, that's an improvement.
> Only question is if we want to default to y to help the ignorant or to
> n to keep our motto.

I obviously do not see this as a question.  :-)  We are not the
distribution of the ignorant.

> What I really, really want, is a `gaze warnings` with

I'm pretty sure there is a bug for this somewhere, it's at least been
discussed before...

> But that's future. Go ahead and bring in your improvements. Not forcing
> the repeated question is a good thing.

I'm going to bed, feel free to do it yourself and update the integration
request.  If one of the others approves and integrates it tonight I can
push stable in the morning.

> Perhaps one should also send out a mail to sm-users.

Yes.

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