Hi, > /etc/daily urges me to set fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities to YES. > > Suppose someone has set this to NO for a reason. > Do we really want to ``remind'' people every single day? > Even those ``You do not have $ME installed as your default browser. You > surely want to correct this'' alerts usually feature some ``don't ask me > again'' checkbox. what is the preferred solution to this? I see three possible solutions: * introduce another variable (daily.diff, manpage would follow) * deactivate this warning completely * just show a warning if fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities is *not* set, then you could deactivate the warning by setting it to NO. As checkyesno cannot do that, you would have to check the variable yourself. Is this ok, or should variables be separated from the script? See daily.diff.1 for an example (not tested). Regards, Julian
Index: daily
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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/etc/daily,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -u -r1.81 daily
--- daily 15 Feb 2012 23:30:11 -0000 1.81
+++ daily 20 Jul 2012 16:51:30 -0000
@@ -254,9 +254,11 @@
if checkyesno fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities; then
( umask 022 && pkg_admin ${_compat_K_flag} \
fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities -u )
- else
+ elif ! checkyesno fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities_nowarn; then
echo "fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities is set to NO in daily.conf(5)."
echo "You should set it to YES to enable vulnerability checks."
+ echo "You can also disable this warning by setting the variable"
+ echo "fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities_nowarn to YES."
fi
fi
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