Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Tags as an alternative to Groups (#632)

2019-09-30 Thread jengelh
>every single typo stands out Which I would consider a good thing, because then I can fix the spello. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Tags as an alternative to Groups (#632)

2019-09-03 Thread jengelh
a bad choice. Imagine if ewt back in the day had declared that RPM would only ever accept the 34-or-so groups of the time. (Did a small-ish UI program to check how long parsing today's rpmdb that way would take. https://github.com/jengelh/rpm-catalog ) >end up with useless typoed

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Tags as an alternative to Groups (#632)

2019-02-15 Thread jengelh
Excuse me if I do not see the complexity here. I am seeing the tag list as a (for rpm) non-interpreted single-value just like what `Group` is, where spaces are interpreted by downstream tools. Like so: ``` rpm -qa --qf="%{NAME}: %{GROUP}\n" >cache.txt grep -Pi '^.*?:.*\b(shoot|arcade)\b'

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Tags as an alternative to Groups (#632)

2019-02-15 Thread jengelh
As part of the discussion about Group removal in distributions and/or rpm itself (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/534 ), some passive brainstorming on the openSUSE was conducted (https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-05/msg00460.html ). The main points are: *

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add support for sorting caret ('^') higher than base version and other fixes (#597)

2018-12-11 Thread jengelh
I am surprised (and late in the game), but for those things, we kinda used '+' all the time. Not necessarily dates, but also `svn1234` or so. Is it too late to fix it? -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: