I found the explanation of the alwaysprompt option in the yum.conf manual slightly confusing. I hope the attached patch makes it a little clearer.
Thanks. -- Peter Oliver
From 5efe965526ddd24f9bca7705a9932146228e8e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Oliver <g...@mavit.org.uk> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 20:00:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Reword description of alwaysprompt option to remove double-negative. --- docs/yum.conf.5 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/yum.conf.5 b/docs/yum.conf.5 index 1596166..efbd3b1 100644 --- a/docs/yum.conf.5 +++ b/docs/yum.conf.5 @@ -128,10 +128,11 @@ Command-line option: \fB\--assumeno\fP .IP \fBalwaysprompt\fR -Either `1' or `0'. Without this option, yum will not prompt for confirmation +Either `1' or `0'. When set to `0', yum will not prompt for confirmation when the list of packages to be installed exactly matches those given on the -command line. Unless \fBassumeyes\fR is enabled, it will still prompt when -additional packages need to be installed to fulfill dependencies. Note that +command line. Unless \fBassumeyes\fR is enabled, it will prompt when +additional packages need to be installed to fulfill dependencies +regardless of this setting. Note that older versions of yum would also always prompt for package removal, and that is no longer true. Default is `1'. @@ -446,7 +447,7 @@ deltarpm metadata is not downloaded from the repo. Default value is 100 (Deltarpm metadata must be smaller than the packages from the repo). Note that you can give values over 100, so 200 means that the metadata is required to be half the size of the packages. -Use `0' to turn off this check, and always download metadata. +Use `0' to turn off this check, and alwaysdownload metadata. .IP \fBsslcacert \fR -- 1.9.3
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