Am Montag, 19. September 2011, 09:56:47 schrieb Pat Riehecky: > On 09/19/2011 08:52 AM, Alec T. Habig wrote: > > Dennis Schridde writes: > >> So it is indeed a bug? How should I progress from here? (I did not see > >> a > >> bugtracker on the website.) > > > > Since very few packages actually belong to SL (as opposed to TUV, who > > have their own bugzilla), we just say on the mailing list: "Hey Connie > > and Pat, here's an easily fixed bug!" > > > > Specifically, please add a mailx dependency to yum-autoupdate. > > > > Low tech but it works :) Reminds me of a "Letterman" cartoon episode, > > > > for example: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3y_H3SaoAY&feature=results_video&p > > laynext=1&list=PLBE024B04B63BF3E8 > Adding it shouldn't be too much work, but from the distribution side we > don't want to force all our users to run a "sending only" mail server > (or more) unless they actually want to. I might instead add a check in > the script where, if sending mail doesn't look possible, it simply > doesn't try to send it. That way people don't have to worry about > surprise software installation on their next update. I know I'd freak > out if suddenly my system is running sendmail/postfix when it wasn't before. It does not seem that mailx requires sendmail/postfix (says "rpm -qR mailx"). So adding the dependency should be safe.
--Dennis
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