svn commit: r279571 - head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 4 16:14:40 UTC 2015


On 2015-03-04 09:59, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> Author: allanjude (doc committer)
>> Date: Tue Mar  3 23:20:18 2015
>> New Revision: 279571
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279571
>>
>> Log:
>>  Add a new safetly belt to freebsd-update to prevent a user doing a minor update (-pX) while having an unfinished major upgrade (9.x to 9.y)
>>  Safetly belt can be disabled with the -F flag
>>
>>  Additionally, add the --not-running-from-cron flag they bypasses the TTY requirement, and allows freebsd-update to be invoked by orchestration frameworks, scripts, or otherwise.
> 
> Would "—non-interactive" be a better name for this option?  Or maybe there is a standard option name used by other utilities to disable the TTY check?
> 
>> Justin
> 

I had originally had it as part of the -F (force) flag, but Colin
Percival asked for that name specifically.

-- 
Allan Jude

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