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.
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.
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
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is world readable, at least for me.
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
Yeah, my box must be weird. Never Mind Then.