Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: permit erasures to be mixed into install/upgrade transactions (#475)

2018-08-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
Closed #475. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/475#event-1800040306___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: permit erasures to be mixed into install/upgrade transactions (#475)

2018-08-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
If you like the suggested argument markup, then a patch is possible. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/475#issuecomment-413186378___

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: permit erasures to be mixed into install/upgrade transactions (#475)

2018-08-15 Thread Panu Matilainen
Supporting multiple operations from the cli has been a low-prio item on my todo for 10+ years, but no implementation has materialized... probably because there just isn't that big demand for it. It's a would-be-nice though. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Re

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: permit erasures to be mixed into install/upgrade transactions (#475)

2018-08-12 Thread Jeff Johnson
No one has asked for the functionality largely for historical reasons. Unlike Debian depsolvers, which make heavy use of conflicts to direct an upgrade including removal of conflicting packages, rpm based depsolvers typically treat a conflicts as a full stop error, displaying enough information

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: permit erasures to be mixed into install/upgrade transactions (#475)

2018-08-12 Thread Igor Gnatenko
This sounds useful, although no one requested this in last 6 years as far as I know. Because all this handled in higher-level tools. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: permit erasures to be mixed into install/upgrade transactions (#475)

2018-07-23 Thread Jeff Johnson
While it is possible to specify both install and erase packages in the same transaction when using rpm libraries/bindings, there is no means to use the rpm CLI to do the same. I would suggest using (or reserving) the following single leading character in CLI arguments: * '@' use the contents a