Bug 63446

Summary: ignored updates don't translate to up2date
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: rhn-appletAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
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Version: 7.3CC: rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2002-04-14 01:30:51 UTC
This may not be that easy to do, but it makes sense that if you're ignoring
updates in the applet, you don't want to install them with up2date either.

Comment 1 Chip Turner 2002-04-14 03:40:10 UTC
I can pass them on the command line or up2date can read the applet's config
file... either way, passing this off to alikins to decide if/when to put such
features in.  Once they're in, I can adapt the applet.

Comment 2 Daniel Veillard 2003-01-17 16:07:02 UTC
Hum, the basic problem is that up2date is really a root process while
the applet runs as the user's. Having up2date read the user's 
.rhn-applet.conf doesn't sound safe, and the applet can't read the
system package skip list because /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is rightly
protected from user's access.
  Only manual update of the user .rhn-applet.conf seems safe, unless 
some of the options of up2date can be made public in a separate config
file.
  Not sure it's worth it,

Daniel

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2003-01-17 20:44:36 UTC
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is world readable, at least for me.

Comment 4 Daniel Veillard 2003-01-17 23:19:34 UTC
I checked on 5 boxes, some I maintain, some I don't, they all have
-rw-------    1 root     root
mask for /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date . You can check porkchop for example !

Daniel

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2003-01-17 23:48:56 UTC
Yeah, my box must be weird. Never Mind Then.