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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

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}