Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:16:41AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 10:15, schrieb Richard Hughes: On 12 June 2014 16:54, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new generation of

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Jan Zelený
On 16. 6. 2014 at 19:49:35, Peter Oliver wrote: On 16 June 2014 08:31, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:07, Chuck Anderson wrote: So I propose we keep calling the project DNF and the package dnf, but start the transition to a generic command name for the tool

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Jan Zelený
On 17. 6. 2014 at 07:27:23, Tim Lauridsen wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Zing z...@fastmail.fm wrote: Does yum have current developers/maintainers? If so, actually obsoleting yum seems kind of rude to me. If that's the case why not just leave yum as is? Those that want to use

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Jon Kent
fpm (fedora package manager). Flows nicely off the keyboard too  I'd agree that dnf is perhaps not the best name in the world, always makes me think 'did not finish' which isn't good really. Jon On 17 Jun 2014 08:07, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 16. 6. 2014 at 19:49:35, Peter

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Jan Zelený
On 17. 6. 2014 at 08:13:18, Jon Kent wrote: fpm (fedora package manager). Flows nicely off the keyboard too  Unfortunately this is not an option, the tool will also be in RHEL and all its derivatives. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Radek Holy
- Original Message - From: Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:07:39 AM Subject: Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF On 16. 6. 2014 at 19:49:35, Peter Oliver wrote: On 16 June 2014 08:31, Jan Zelený jzel

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Rich Mattes
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Any other suggestions then? Cause `pkg` would be my #1 choice. rum: {Redhat,RPM} Updater, Modified rup: {Redhat,RPM} UPdater packagectl Rich -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:07:39 +0200 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Any other suggestions then? Cause `pkg` would be my #1 choice. Personally, I think adding another name just adds another problem. kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread poma
On 17.06.2014 09:13, Jon Kent wrote: fpm (fedora package manager). Flows nicely off the keyboard too  fedora package manager aka fpm in EL8? :) So for a couple of years here we go again. BTW yum never finished one are based on the actual package manager - rpm. man 8 yum yum is an

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:46 AM, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: fedora package manager aka fpm in EL8? :) So for a couple of years here we go again. BTW yum never finished one are based on the actual package manager - rpm. man 8 yum yum is an interactive, rpm based, package

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.06.2014 17:54, schrieb Jerry James: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:46 AM, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: fedora package manager aka fpm in EL8? :) So for a couple of years here we go again. BTW yum never finished one are based on the actual package manager - rpm. man 8 yum yum

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 06/11/2014 08:20 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: The transition period is one reason why we want to keep the name dnf. We'd basically like to keep current yum around for users that have various scripts and stuff depending on it so they have some time to migrate to dnf. Also presenting dnf as a

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread David
On 6/17/2014 12:50 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 06/11/2014 08:20 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: The transition period is one reason why we want to keep the name dnf. We'd basically like to keep current yum around for users that have various scripts and stuff depending on it so they have some time to

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David dgbo...@gmail.com said: Excuse me. By now I doubt anyone but the Yum zealots really care. Just do it. Make the switch. The Yum zealots will find something else to complain about later. Perhaps the size of the default font? :-) Please do not call people that like

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.06.2014 19:26, schrieb David: On 6/17/2014 12:50 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 06/11/2014 08:20 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: The transition period is one reason why we want to keep the name dnf. We'd basically like to keep current yum around for users that have various scripts and stuff

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/2014 1:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.06.2014 19:26, schrieb David: before you call others zealots you should ask yourself if you are just only a ordinary user with his single machine or have to manage *a lot* of machines, some of

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:11 PM, David wrote: You completely missed my point. The Fedora Devs have been working on this. The Fedora Devs want to do this. The Fedora Devs have said that they are going to do this. And when. Which means? You, and others, are going to have to deal with

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.06.2014 20:11, schrieb David: On 6/17/2014 1:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.06.2014 19:26, schrieb David: before you call others zealots you should ask yourself if you are just only a ordinary user with his single machine or have to manage *a lot* of machines, some of them even

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread David
On 6/17/2014 2:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:11 PM, David wrote: You completely missed my point. The Fedora Devs have been working on this. The Fedora Devs want to do this. The Fedora Devs have said that they are going to do this. And when.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:03:20 -0600 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:07:39 +0200 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Any other suggestions then? Cause `pkg` would be my #1 choice. Personally, I think adding another name just adds another problem. kevin

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:52:34 -0400 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 02:44:10PM +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: * package 'dnf-yum-compat-command' is installed by default. It obsoletes Yum and provides its own

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.06.2014 21:36, schrieb Stijn Hoop: On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:03:20 -0600 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:07:39 +0200 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Any other suggestions then? Cause `pkg` would be my #1 choice. Personally, I think adding another name

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 June 2014 19:11, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/2014 1:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.06.2014 19:26, schrieb David: before you call others zealots you should ask yourself if you are just only a ordinary user with his single

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 02:40:45PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:52:34 -0400 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 02:44:10PM +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: * package

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 16:37 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 02:40:45PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: I am not away of any work to make mock use dnf. dnf will need to be able to make mock chroots going all the way back to rhel5 since we use mock in the buildsystem and we

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:37:32 -0400 Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 02:40:45PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:52:34 -0400 Matthew Miller

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-17 Thread Mikolaj Izdebski
On 06/17/2014 09:40 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: I am not away of any work to make mock use dnf. As part of GSoC Michael Simacek is working on improving mock. Among other features, DNF support is already implemented and working. More information can be found on his blog [1] (part of Fedora

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 14. 6. 2014 at 12:18:07, Jon Kent wrote: Hi, Been monitoring this debate and if nothing else this seems to point out that the reasoning for dnf, as opposed to fixing/rewriting yum haven't been laid out very well. I'm on yum side of the fence as I don't see that the reasoning so far is

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:07, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:38:40AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: On 12. 6. 2014 at 10:54:45, DJ Delorie wrote: Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a few more Fedora releases, Which only postpones the

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-16 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:31:17AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:07, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:38:40AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: On 12. 6. 2014 at 10:54:45, DJ Delorie wrote: Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-16 Thread Peter Oliver
On 16 June 2014 08:31, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:07, Chuck Anderson wrote: So I propose we keep calling the project DNF and the package dnf, but start the transition to a generic command name for the tool that installs, removes, and updates packages. I

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-16 Thread Zing
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:44:10 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: * package 'dnf-yum-compat-command' is installed by default. It obsoletes Yum and provides its own code/usr/bin/yum/code, a short Does yum have current developers/maintainers? If so, actually obsoleting yum seems kind of rude to me.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-16 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Zing z...@fastmail.fm wrote: Does yum have current developers/maintainers? If so, actually obsoleting yum seems kind of rude to me. If that's the case why not just leave yum as is? Those that want to use yum use yum and dnf use dnf. I don't know the

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Depends obscure options that are hardly used by the majority of users are different from common options that everyone uses. dnf remove yum dnf kernel ruins your system yum don't allow that for good reasons that's

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Please keep the command name yum, and keep the command line syntax and the configuration language as compatible as is feasible. Make a wrapper or a symlink if you need to, but plan to keep it forever, not just for

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-15 Thread Björn Persson
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: As a system administrator I expect yum install, yum remove and yum update to continue to work, and I expect to not have to rename or edit /etc/yum.conf after an upgrade. I'm sure I'm far

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: As a system administrator I expect yum install, yum remove and yum update to continue to work, and I

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Tim Lauridsen
Come on, every thing in Fedora changes all the time, It is hard for me to see the fuzz about having to type 'dnf install foobar', instead of 'yum install foobar' If you uses a tool like yum at the command line, you should be able to handle that. more novice users will use gui tool and don't

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 10:05, schrieb Tim Lauridsen: Come on, every thing in Fedora changes all the time, It is hard for me to see the fuzz about having to type 'dnf install foobar', instead of 'yum install foobar' If you uses a tool like yum at the command line, you should be able to handle that.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : So maybe you should propose to have dnf named yum 4.0, and then since that's a major version, we would be ok to change

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:36, schrieb Michael Scherer: Everybody I know who looked at the yum python api told me it was a bit horrible. So a cleanup was needed for that. There was demand from packagekit developers to have a cleaner API

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 12:26, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : So maybe you should propose to have dnf named yum 4.0, and then since that's

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Jon Kent
Hi, Been monitoring this debate and if nothing else this seems to point out that the reasoning for dnf, as opposed to fixing/rewriting yum haven't been laid out very well. I'm on yum side of the fence as I don't see that the reasoning so far is been put forward very well for moving to dnf, and

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 17:14, schrieb drago01: But we should not stop progress because what we have works ... we don't work on Fedora to keep things as is we want to improve what we have. (Just to be clear again that has

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 14:31, schrieb drago01: And recently there is even a trend where people (and the press) complains lack of change == lack of innovation ... that does not mean that we should do changes for the sake of doing changes but we should not be afraid of doing so either. the same sort of

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Jon Kent
Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to automate things. Agree Reindl comment 're this statement. On 14 Jun 2014 13:41, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 14.06.2014 14:31, schrieb drago01: And recently there is even a trend where people (and the press)

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 13:45 +0100, Jon Kent a écrit : Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to automate things. Agree Reindl comment 're this statement. CLI is not scalable, you need to fork processes for that. There is also no way to communicate errors to the

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 12:26, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 04:00 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:42, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : So maybe

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 14:56, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 13:45 +0100, Jon Kent a écrit : Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to automate things. Agree Reindl comment 're this statement. CLI is not scalable, you need to fork processes for that. There

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 15:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : That's why the developers do ask what is missing. That's also why I ask for you what compatibility you exactly want, and you keep avoiding giving a clear answer *full* compatibility

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 14/06/2014 15:15, Reindl Harald a écrit : stop that trolling Weren't you the one trolling here ? Because that's what many people are thinking about this thread. Don't you think that turning every discussion on DNF into a flame war is helpful or serves your purpose ? Even the ones where

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:08 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 14:56, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 13:45 +0100, Jon Kent a écrit : Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to automate things. Agree Reindl comment 're this statement.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 15:48, schrieb Haïkel Guémar: Le 14/06/2014 15:15, Reindl Harald a écrit : stop that trolling Weren't you the one trolling here? Because that's what many people are thinking about this thread. backed by what data? Don't you think that turning every discussion on DNF into

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 15:49, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:08 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 14:56, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 13:45 +0100, Jon Kent a écrit : Concerns me greatly when someone thinks cli is the wrong way to automate things.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 15:15 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 15:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 12:55 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : That's why the developers do ask what is missing. That's also why I ask for you what compatibility you exactly want,

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: you can rename internal functions, move code, use different libraries all day long, but if it comes to command lines and user interfaces (CLI params are a user interface) you need always to be very careful Depends

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 14/06/2014 15:59, Reindl Harald a écrit : backed by what data? Based on various contributors feedbacks. don't you think if after i made clear my point of view a handful people starting quibbling is the real reason for become a flamewar? Let's say that's the case, are you compelled to

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 16:39, schrieb Haïkel Guémar: Le 14/06/2014 15:59, Reindl Harald a écrit : what eactly is broken in the CLI? I'll chose an example you care about: protected packages. You pretend that DNF maintainers refused to support that, but actually, the answer is that they think it

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 14.06.2014 16:39, schrieb Haïkel Guémar: Le 14/06/2014 15:59, Reindl Harald a écrit : [...] * dd's job is to write raw data * the package managers job is help to maintain a machine and ruin it No its not ;)

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Andrew Clayton
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:15:11 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 12 June 2014 16:54, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new generation of YUM Just do a side-by-side comparison of the code

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 17:26, schrieb drago01: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 14.06.2014 16:39, schrieb Haïkel Guémar: Le 14/06/2014 15:59, Reindl Harald a écrit : [...] * dd's job is to write raw data * the package managers job is help to maintain a

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread drago01
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 14.06.2014 17:26, schrieb drago01: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 14.06.2014 16:39, schrieb Haïkel Guémar: Le 14/06/2014 15:59, Reindl Harald a écrit : [...] *

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Björn Persson
Please keep the command name yum, and keep the command line syntax and the configuration language as compatible as is feasible. Make a wrapper or a symlink if you need to, but plan to keep it forever, not just for a year or two. So Yum has been made faster? That's wonderful news, it was certainly

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Jon Kent
I have a script I wrote that we've been using for years to manage large number of servers using yum to manage rpm install/upgrades etc via ssh from management server. So long as that usecase is covered still, ie dnf can be scripted around with sane exit codes, than I'm a happy bunny. From what

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Björn Persson bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se wrote: Please keep the command name yum, and keep the command line syntax and the configuration language as compatible as is feasible. Make a wrapper or a symlink if you need to, but plan to keep it forever, not just

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Jan Zelený
On 12. 6. 2014 at 10:54:45, DJ Delorie wrote: Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a few more Fedora releases, Which only postpones the problem. just as the `service` command that was superseded by systemctl like 5 releases of Fedora ago exists. Which

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Jan Zelený
On 12. 6. 2014 at 11:41:52, Simo Sorce wrote: On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 17:13 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: 2014-06-12 17:03 GMT+02:00 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: We are on the same page, thanks for your input. I don't think

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 10:01, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 12. 6. 2014 at 11:41:52, Simo Sorce wrote: We can keep the yum symlink forever... Definitely, we do no insist on removing it. I am perfectly fine with removing it some time far in the future when nobody uses it any more one said forever, i am

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Jan Zelený
On 12. 6. 2014 at 16:16:13, Miloslav Trmač wrote: 2014-06-12 9:30 GMT+02:00 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com: It boils down to this: someone is going to be inconvenienced. I argue it's better to inconvenience the minority with special 'yum' needs by making them use the 'yum-old' alias,

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Richard Hughes
On 12 June 2014 16:54, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new generation of YUM Just do a side-by-side comparison of the code bases. Calling dnf yum would be a lie indeed. Richard. -- devel

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 10:15, schrieb Richard Hughes: On 12 June 2014 16:54, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new generation of YUM Just do a side-by-side comparison of the code bases. Calling

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 10:13, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 12. 6. 2014 at 16:16:13, Miloslav Trmač wrote: … *now*, but *will be inconvenienced later* after those “a few more releases” when you are planning for the yum command to go away. The total breakage and total impact on users is the same, you are

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Jan Zelený
On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:48, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 10:01, schrieb Jan Zelený: On 12. 6. 2014 at 11:41:52, Simo Sorce wrote: We can keep the yum symlink forever... Definitely, we do no insist on removing it. I am perfectly fine with removing it some time far in the future

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-06-13 10:20 GMT+02:00 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com: On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:48, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 10:01, schrieb Jan Zelený: i have not heard any valid reason to call a software DNF instead just the next major version of YUM which is millions of times mentioned and

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Jan Zelený
On 13. 6. 2014 at 11:36:25, Miloslav Trmač wrote: 2014-06-13 10:20 GMT+02:00 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com: On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:48, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 10:01, schrieb Jan Zelený: i have not heard any valid reason to call a software DNF instead just the next major

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will do nothing else than to confuse its users, as they will think this is still yum and they should expect from dnf it what they expected from yum. They

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will do nothing else than to confuse its users, as they will think this is still

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Petr Spacek
On 13.6.2014 14:58, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will do nothing else than to confuse its users, as they will think this is still yum and they should expect from dnf it

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 15:03, schrieb drago01: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will do nothing else than to confuse its

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 15:15 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 15:03, schrieb drago01: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 14:53 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: So not wanting users to complain about “yum” no longer having some features is the only reason for dropping the yum name I have seen in this thread (also called “setting expectations”); have I missed other reasons? No, there is not.

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: I think you are failing to understand the concept of perspective. I think there is a difference in perspectives rather than lack of understanding. You are looking at it from a developer perspective - their project, let them do whatever

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:38:40AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: On 12. 6. 2014 at 10:54:45, DJ Delorie wrote: Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a few more Fedora releases, Which only postpones the problem. just as the `service` command that was

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will do nothing else than to confuse its

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 16:49, schrieb drago01: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net the user expects that anyways if you replace something he did not

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/13/2014 11:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: well, hopefully it does not fit the same way if it needs to drive offside a nice road in context of software: stability i am tired hear people talking about milliseconds of boot-performance and what update tool is slightly faster here and there

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 16:49, schrieb drago01: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.06.2014 17:14, schrieb drago01: But we should not stop progress because what we have works ... we don't work on Fedora to keep things as is we want to improve what we have. (Just to be clear again that has nothing to do with the *name* of the things we just should not live in the

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread DJ Delorie
If you have any other suggestions other than keeping the name, we will be open to consider them. My suggestion is to keep the name, but as you're not open to that option, there's no point in me bothering, is there? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 15:07 +0200, Petr Spacek a écrit : On 13.6.2014 14:58, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will do nothing else than to confuse its users,

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 03:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 15:07 +0200, Petr Spacek a écrit : On 13.6.2014 14:58, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not renaming dnf to yum is that renaming this project to yum will

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 03:10, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : On 06/13/2014 09:03 AM, drago01 wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:58 PM,

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:04, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 15:07 +0200, Petr Spacek a écrit : On 13.6.2014 14:58, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.06.2014 14:53, schrieb Jan Zelený: That being said, the reason for not

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.06.2014 03:24, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Like they complained when up2date was replaced by yum ? when zipper replaced whatever they used to have on *suse before ? When pkgin replaced pkg_add on some of the BSD ? It happened

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:20 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:10, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:03 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 02:59, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le vendredi 13 juin 2014 à 10:39 -0400, Steve Clark a écrit : On

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:33 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : Am 14.06.2014 03:24, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le samedi 14 juin 2014 à 03:10 +0200, Reindl Harald a écrit : and that changes where much bigger than a fork of YUM renamed for no good reason especially in context of replace it

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