Re: DNF pains

2016-02-10 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 3.2.2016 v 23:28 Felix Miata napsal(a): > Problem #1: > NAICT, DNF, like Yum before it, offers no option I can recognize from its man > page to download less than all the to-be-updated/installed packages before > proceeding to install any packages. Thus it downloads (typically hundreds of >

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-04 Thread mluscon
On 02/03/2016 11:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Problem #2: A way to work around problem #1 is with wildcards, e.g. # dnf update g* i*, kd*, kf*, q*, per*, pyt*, u*, v*, x* y*, z* When this example is used following observance of problem #1, DNF naturally skips downloading packages

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 02/04/2016 01:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Przemek Klosowski composed on 2016-02-04 12:28 (UTC-0500): for a in {a..z} {A..Z} ; do dnf update $a'*'; done An alternative to what I've been doing. When I can remember, I first change to an empty directory before typing dnf, so bash has nothing

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-04 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 03/02/16 15:10 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 02/03/2016 02:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Problem #3: When running from say the /boot directory the same dnf command above: # dnf update kd*, kf*, q*, per*, pyt*, u*, v*, x* y*, z* dnf reports cannot install package inityada, cannot install

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 02/03/2016 05:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I have lots of test installations using identical partition sizes for EXT3 or EXT4 / filesystems. the filesystem space these provided is adequate on all if running Mageia or openSUSE, but quite often not for Fedora. Working around the inadequacy on

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-04 Thread Felix Miata
Przemek Klosowski composed on 2016-02-04 12:28 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> I have lots of test installations using identical partition sizes for EXT3 or >> EXT4 / filesystems. the filesystem space these provided is adequate on all if >> running Mageia or openSUSE, but quite often not for

DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Felix Miata
I have lots of test installations using identical partition sizes for EXT3 or EXT4 / filesystems. the filesystem space these provided is adequate on all if running Mageia or openSUSE, but quite often not for Fedora. Working around the inadequacy on Fedora presents problems #2 & #3. Problem #1:

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016, at 05:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > NAICT, DNF, like Yum before it, offers no option I can recognize from its > > man > > page to download less than all the to-be-updated/installed packages before > > proceeding to install any packages. Thus it downloads (typically

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Qua, 2016-02-03 at 15:10 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/03/2016 02:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Problem #3: > > When running from say the /boot directory the same dnf command > > above: > > > > # dnf update kd*, kf*, q*, per*, pyt*, u*, v*, x* y*, z* > > > > dnf reports cannot install

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Subhendu Ghosh
Do we have zypper in Fedora? Perhaps we should give that a try? On Feb 3, 2016 23:28, "Felix Miata" wrote: > I have lots of test installations using identical partition sizes for EXT3 > or > EXT4 / filesystems. the filesystem space these provided is adequate on all > if >

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Dan Book
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/03/2016 02:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > >> Problem #3: >> When running from say the /boot directory the same dnf command above: >> >> # dnf update kd*, kf*, q*, per*, pyt*, u*, v*, x* y*, z* >> >> dnf reports

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Felix Miata
Chris Murphy composed on 2016-02-03 15:54 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote: ... >> Does anyone here agree that each of the three would represent legitimate >> wishlist bugs, unlikely to be summarily dismissed as wontfix? > My expectation is that's a lot more work than for dnf to do a better >

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > I have lots of test installations using identical partition sizes for EXT3 or > EXT4 / filesystems. the filesystem space these provided is adequate on all if > running Mageia or openSUSE, but quite often not for Fedora.

Re: DNF pains

2016-02-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/03/2016 02:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Problem #3: When running from say the /boot directory the same dnf command above: # dnf update kd*, kf*, q*, per*, pyt*, u*, v*, x* y*, z* dnf reports cannot install package inityada, cannot install package vmliyada, It ought to be smart