On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:37 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 03/18/2013 03:17 PM, James Antill wrote: > > Kind of ... the rule is that all idempotent operations should match > > packages without caring about case sensitivity. So "yum install Mysql" > > doesn't work, but "yum list Mysql" does. > > <pedantic> "Idempotent" means that that multiple applications of an > operation have no further effect after the first one
True. > ---so "yum install" > is actually idempotent. </pedantic> No, as install can still do upgrades etc. > So, what is the rule you are referring to? perhaps it could be described > as covering "inconsequential operations". Yeh, that's probably close. A longer explanation is probably: Operations that are "read-only", from the users point of view, will match packages ignoring case sensitivity. ...or as a quick hack, if it says "list/info/search" at the end then it's probably good :). -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
