smart installation not scriptable

[Cliff Wells]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:49 -0500, ptilopteri at gmail.com wrote:
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> * Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> [12-18-07 19:07]:

> > smart update < /usr/bin/yes
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	       not necessary
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> smart update" requires no other input unless you want to specify
> particular channel[s]

It does *on first install*, and this is my problem.  I'm trying to
automate installation after a fresh installation of a distro:


[root at vz111 /]# yum install smart -y 
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package smart.i386 0:0.51-49.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: smart-config for package: smart
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fedora-package-config-smart.i386 0:8-10 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size 
=============================================================================
Installing for dependencies:
 fedora-package-config-smart  i386       8-10             fedora
6.2 k
 smart                   i386       0.51-49.fc8      fedora
760 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 766 k
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): smart-0.51-49.fc8. 100% |=========================| 760 kB
00:02     
(2/2): fedora-package-con 100% |=========================| 6.2 kB
00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: fedora-package-config-smart  #########################
[1/2] 
  Installing: smart                        #########################
[2/2] 

Dependency Installed: fedora-package-config-smart.i386 0:8-10 smart.i386
0:0.51-49.fc8
Complete!
[root at vz111 /]# smart update
New channel 'Fedora - i386 - Development (development)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora - i386 - Development - Debug
(development-debuginfo)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora - Development - Source (development-source)'
detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - i386 - Test Updates (updates-testing)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - i386 - Test Updates Debug
(updates-testing-debuginfo)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - Test Updates Source (updates-testing-source)'
detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates - Debug (updates-debuginfo)'
detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - Updates Source (updates-source)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - i386 - Updates (updates)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - i386 (core)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - Source (core-source)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

New channel 'Fedora 8 - i386 - Debug (core-debuginfo)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): 

Updating cache...
########################################################################################### [100%]



Someone must interactively hit <Enter> for each of these questions and
this is my problem.  There is no "-y" option for "smart update" nor does
it accept input from /usr/bin/yes.  Worse, when run from a script with
no console, it apparently interprets everything as "N" so no
repositories get set up and smart will then fail to do anything from
that point on.

Regards,
Cliff