Bug 172009

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Description of problem:
up2date always runs "up2date --configure" on the first run, even when that behavior is not desired (which is 100% of the time, IMHO).  It does not provide a means to skip said behavior that I could find.

It is wholly pointless for the vast majority of users who have to hit "enter" to get on with what they were trying to do (which was no configure up2date, but to actually use it...they would have asked for --configure, if they wanted to configure it).  Worse, every user I've walked through an installation and up2date thinks it is an error because of the two screens full of crud that they don't understand and have no desire to understand.  The first option is "debug" and the others are even more cryptic and frightening, like this beauty: "2.  rhnuuid            538fbdfa-713c-11d8-8a1a-9b2a1e951843".

This simply should not be the default behavior.  It looks like an error to most new users, it prevents automated up2date usage on new systems, and it contains confusingly labeled settings that the vast majority of users don't need to change and won't understand how to change without consulting documentation (and if they do change them, they're likely to break up2date).  It is simply morally reprehensible (OK, maybe I exaggerate the crime a little bit...but it is certainly extremely silly behavior).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a fresh system (I've reported for RHEL4, but it applies to all Red Hat-based products that include up2date)
2. Run up2date
  

Actual Results:  0.  debug              No
1.  useRhn             No
2.  rhnuuid            538fbdfa-713c-11d8-8a1a-9b2a1e951843
3.  isatty             Yes
4.  showAvailablePacka No
5.  useNoSSLForPackage No
6.  storageDir         /var/spool/up2date
7.  pkgSkipList        ['kernel*']
8.  retrieveOnly       No
9.  noSSLServerURL     http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
10. networkSetup       Yes
11. networkRetries     5
12. pkgsToInstallNotUp ['kernel', 'kernel-modules']
13. enableProxy        No
14. noBootLoader       No
15. proxyPassword
16. updateUp2date      Yes
17. keepAfterInstall   No
18. useGPG             Yes
19. headerCacheSize    40
20. forceInstall       No
21. systemIdPath       /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
22. retrieveSource     No
23. enableRollbacks    No
24. gpgKeyRing         /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-keyring.gpg
25. adminAddress       ['root@localhost']
26. serverURL          https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
27. fileSkipList       []
28. versionOverride
29. sslCACert          /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT
30. noReplaceConfig    Yes
31. enableProxyAuth    No
32. disallowConfChange ['noReboot', 'sslCACert', 'useNoSSLForPackages', 'noSSLSe33. headerFetchCount   10
34. proxyUser
35. removeSkipList     ['kernel*']
36. httpProxy
37. noReboot           No


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Expected Results:  up2date does what up2date is supposed to do (i.e. update packages, install software, wacky stuff like that).

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