Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 20:40 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:28:44 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > [] > > Do you have the bug reference? I'd rather find out before dnf leaves me > > with a non-bootable system. The reason I'm harping on about it is that > > in a thread

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-18 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:28:44 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [] > Do you have the bug reference? I'd rather find out before dnf leaves me > with a non-bootable system. The reason I'm harping on about it is that > in a thread on this list a few months back the developers didn't seem to

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/17/2014 06:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here, I ran into this the other day. It would seem the way

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-17 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here, I ran into this the other day. It would seem the way dnf handles caching is different from yum. Not 100% sure/convin

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:02:52PM +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 06/16/14 14:45, Jan Zelený wrote: > >feel free to reopen the bug too, otherwise it might get off the radar. > > How do I, as a normal user, re-open a bug? Can not see any way more than > cloning it. Is that how it's supposed

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:45:17PM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the > kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this > accidentally. > That being said, if users accidentally instruct yum to erase the running

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/16/2014 05:45 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the kernel? I can remember needing to get rid of all kernels except for the running one on at least one occasion. (It was the oldest one and for some reason the two newer ones wer

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread poma
On 16.06.2014 22:02, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 06/16/14 14:45, Jan Zelený wrote: ... ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this accidentally. Well, with 'yum erase kernel' you can not accidenta

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 06/16/14 14:45, Jan Zelený wrote: We originally didn't want to implement anything like this for three reasons: a) in our opinion, dnf should not do the thinking for admins It should have sensible defaults so that a user can not hose the system by accident. What would the use case be to r

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 04:04:24PM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > You are assuming limited by your own experience that this is done > > accidentally. > And hence the poll I'm a little skeptical that the poll will reach the right segment of responders to get a valuable response. -- Matthew Miller F

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread poma
On 06/16/2014 04:04 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: On 16. 6. 2014 at 09:19:21, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this accid

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 16. 6. 2014 at 09:19:21, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > > ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the > > kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this > > accidentally. > > You are assumin

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread poma
On 06/16/2014 03:23 PM, Paul Knox-Kennedy wrote: On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here, I ran into this the other day. It would seem the way dnf handles c

RE: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Paul Knox-Kennedy
> > On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > >> > So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them > >> > does here, > > I ran into this the other day. It would seem the way dnf > handles caching is different from

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 14:45:17 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this accidentally. That being said, if users accidentally instruct yum to erase the running kernel on

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > ad b) how many times have this feature actually saved you from erasing the > kernel? In 10+ years using Linux I have never managed to do this > accidentally. > You are assuming limited by your own experience that this is done accidentally

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 16. 6. 2014 at 07:49:55, David wrote: > On 6/16/2014 7:19 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 06/16/14 19:00, David wrote: > >> On 6/16/2014 1:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> On 06/16/14 12:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O > >>> > >>> FWIW, it has been sugges

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread David
On 6/16/2014 7:19 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/16/14 19:00, David wrote: >> On 6/16/2014 1:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 06/16/14 12:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O >>> FWIW, it has been suggested that the DNF developers would consider this a >>> bug i

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 21:12 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 06/09/14 16:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Do you have the bug reference? I'd rather find out before dnf leaves me > > with a non-bootable system. The reason I'm harping on about it is that > > in a thread on this list a few mont

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/14 19:00, David wrote: > On 6/16/2014 1:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 06/16/14 12:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: >>> By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O >> FWIW, it has been suggested that the DNF developers would consider this a >> bug if the number of CC's on >> https://bugzilla.re

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread David
On 6/16/2014 1:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/16/14 12:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: >> By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O > > FWIW, it has been suggested that the DNF developers would consider this a bug > if the number of CC's on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 > was

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Jan Zelený
On 14. 6. 2014 at 11:05:03, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 06/14/2014 12:05 AM, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > Tom Horsley wrote, On 06/07/2014 03:57 PM (EEST): > >> On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 07:47:37 -0500 > >> > >> Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >>> For one thing the depsolving algorithm used by yum is slow. >

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/16/14 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here, I ran into this the other day. It would seem the way dnf handles caching is different from yum. Not 100% sure/convin

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/14 16:37, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here, I ran into this the other day. It would seem the way dnf handles caching is different from yum. Not 100% sure/convinced this "fixed" my problembut afte

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-16 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/16/14 00:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 06/09/2014 06:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum. Yes, tha

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/16/14 12:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O FWIW, it has been suggested that the DNF developers would consider this a bug if the number of CC's on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 was over 40. It now stands at 40. But, it wouldn't h

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-15 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 06/09/2014 06:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: >>> till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. >>> IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum. >> Yes, that's the plan. There are some dif

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-15 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 06/09/14 16:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Do you have the bug reference? I'd rather find out before dnf leaves me with a non-bootable system. The reason I'm harping on about it is that in a thread on this list a few months back the developers didn't seem to think it was a bug. It has not be

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/14/2014 12:05 AM, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: Tom Horsley wrote, On 06/07/2014 03:57 PM (EEST): On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 07:47:37 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: For one thing the depsolving algorithm used by yum is slow. Not so an ordinary human could notice it compared (for example) to the t

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/13/2014 02:53 PM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 08:06 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: I've checked the installonly_limit in yum.conf and it is set to 3, which now confuses me because I've never had more than one kernel installed even when doing updates with yum. That's never been my exper

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-13 Thread Aleksandar Kostadinov
Tom Horsley wrote, On 06/07/2014 03:57 PM (EEST): On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 07:47:37 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: For one thing the depsolving algorithm used by yum is slow. Not so an ordinary human could notice it compared (for example) to the time it takes to rebuild the rpms from the deltas. No

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 08:06 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > I've checked the installonly_limit in yum.conf and it is set to 3, > which now confuses me because I've never had more than one kernel > installed even when doing updates with yum. That's never been my experience. But, do you really mean

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/13/2014 08:06 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 06/12/2014 10:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 15:58 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/11/2014 03:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous previous :-) which I think is th

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/12/2014 10:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 15:58 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/11/2014 03:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous previous :-) which I think is the default with yum though it can be changed by

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 15:58 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/11/2014 03:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous > > previous :-) which I think is the default with yum though it can be > > changed by editing installonly_limit in /etc/yum.con

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/11/2014 03:48 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have three kernels installed (current, previous and previous previous :-) which I think is the default with yum though it can be changed by editing installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf. If smartpm says that kernels can't coexist it's clearly wron

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 07:35 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > Just as a side issue, you mentioned that kernel updates remove the > older > kernel, I have noticed the same thing and I have also had Smartpm > tell > me that a new kernel can't coexist with the previous kernel. Is there > any way to ch

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/11/2014 05:38 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On 06/10/2014 11:18 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Can it be configured to turn that functionality off if desired, sometimes it is quicker to download packages individually rather than in parallel. If there is a specific situation when this is the case,

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/11/2014 07:51 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/10/2014 02:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I'm not saying there is any benefit of one over the other, all I am saying is that the package manager I currently use seems to be using the latter method when upgrades to the kmod.nvidia packages are requ

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-11 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 06/10/2014 11:18 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Can it be configured to turn that functionality off if desired, sometimes it is quicker to download packages individually rather than in parallel. If there is a specific situation when this is the case, experienced by a nontrivial number of users,

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/10/2014 02:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I'm not saying there is any benefit of one over the other, all I am saying is that the package manager I currently use seems to be using the latter method when upgrades to the kmod.nvidia packages are required. I use yumex every morning to keep

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/10/2014 06:01 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On 06/09/2014 11:25 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just another question, is DNF multi-threaded? From my perspective it would be ideal if it could be configured to specify how many parallel downloads to start (like other download managers I have use

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/10/2014 04:51 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On 06/09/2014 11:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have the akmod.nvidia and kmod.nvidia proprietary drivers installed and when they are updated, the package manager I use tells me about the packages that have to be uninstalled in order to do the u

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Andre Robatino
Andre Robatino fedoraproject.org> writes: > I already reported the missing includepkgs option as > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055910 . Sorry, that's not my bug, mine was closed as a dupe of this one. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or cha

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Andre Robatino
Jan Zelený redhat.com> writes: > In case you have some features you would like us to include, please search > bugzilla for the list of (both opened and closed) RFEs. If you don't find the > RFE in the list, feel free to open a request so we can track what people > actually want. I already rep

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 9. 6. 2014 at 15:28:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 09:45 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > On 6. 6. 2014 at 16:56:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 14:46 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > The time when DNF will take over from

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Bob Marcan
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:28:07 -0500 Justin Brown wrote: > I've been using DNF for a year or so primarily. The one gripe that I > have is that DNF tends to avoid giving useful information with broken > packages. A required package version isn't available? Yum will print > out tons of information on

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Richard Hughes
On 9 June 2014 23:17, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > major distributions. (I'm rather surprised the MATE folks haven't > forked gnome-packagekit already...) I don't think they need to, I'm still maintaining gnome-packagekit for people not wanting (or who can't) run gnome-software. Richard -- user

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 06/09/2014 11:25 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Just another question, is DNF multi-threaded? From my perspective it would be ideal if it could be configured to specify how many parallel downloads to start (like other download managers I have used under windows) and like some compilers I have

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 9. 6. 2014 at 15:17:47, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 06/09/2014 12:48 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > >> Nope, yumex has only a very little to do with yum, it's a separate > >> project. > >> You can use PackageKit or the GNOME software center which

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 9. 6. 2014 at 17:12:37, Andre Robatino wrote: > Jonathan Dieter lesbg.com> writes: > > > The list of missing yum options is both outdated and incomplete. For > > > example, it's missing "includepkgs" (a repository option), for people > > > who > > > need to access specific packages from non-Fed

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 06/09/2014 11:13 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: I have the akmod.nvidia and kmod.nvidia proprietary drivers installed and when they are updated, the package manager I use tells me about the packages that have to be uninstalled in order to do the update (this package manager seems to uninstall

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:25:33 -0700 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > which > requires multilib i686 bits Properly split up rpms wouldn't "require" multilib. The abomination that is multilib introduces utter confusion by allowing 32 and 64 bit versions of rpms to both be installed when both claim to incl

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Justin Brown
I've been using DNF for a year or so primarily. The one gripe that I have is that DNF tends to avoid giving useful information with broken packages. A required package version isn't available? Yum will print out tons of information on which package failed, what version is installed, and what versio

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Can we vote for features we want removed, like multilib? (Actually I guess > that is an rpm abomination, not a yum abomination, but it still ought > to be removed and all the rpms properly split into noarch, i686, and > x86_64 parts :-). Why?

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/09/2014 12:48 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: >> >> Nope, yumex has only a very little to do with yum, it's a separate >> project. >> You can use PackageKit or the GNOME software center which will both soon >> use the same underlying libraries dnf use

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: >> Why not "Vote for yum vs dnf"? >> What exactly is wrong with yum? >> It has worked faultlessly and painlessly for me for years, >> with addons to deal with every conceivable problem. >> If there is some problem with it, >> why not simply deal w

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/09/2014 05:49 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: On 9. 6. 2014 at 16:41:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 06/09/2014 02:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. IMO, for many (majority?)

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/10/14 05:16, Stephen Morris wrote: > Is PackageKit the only option for a kde user or is there something else which > could be used, like for example Smartpm? KDE's package management is "apper" -- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wr

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/09/2014 07:50 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 06/07/14 12:19, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > Those of us who have to consider "usage" are willing to wait for the rpm rebuilding >process Don't think you can s

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/09/2014 05:45 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: On 6. 6. 2014 at 16:56:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 14:46 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote: Hello, The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 06/09/2014 05:48 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: On 6. 6. 2014 at 09:20:33, Luke Nath wrote: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:46:23 +0200 From: akozu...@redhat.com To: de...@lists.fedoraproject.org; yum-de...@lists.baseurl.org; users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi, I had a look at dnf yesterday for the first time, I didn't know it existed until this thread. I have a query with its functionality that I'm not sure is an issue or whether its just the package manager I normally use that is being user friendly or doing things differently. I have th

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/09/2014 09:25 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: It appears fromhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF that everyone will have to start writing "dnf install ...", which (if true) invalidates a vast amount of existing documentation and scripts. alias dnf=yum HTH, HAND. -- use

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/07/14 12:19, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > Those of us who have to consider "usage" are willing to wait for the rpm rebuilding >process Don't think you can speak for all of us. I don't prefer to wait at all and want the

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Andre Robatino
Jonathan Dieter lesbg.com> writes: > > The list of missing yum options is both outdated and incomplete. For > > example, it's missing "includepkgs" (a repository option), for people who > > need to access specific packages from non-Fedora compatible repos. On the > > other hand, it includes "delt

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > Hello, > > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. > We're wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF > that they have got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've > put together a very

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On 06/09/2014 04:15 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they have got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've put together a very short and simple survey. Let your o

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/09/2014 05:00 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 9 June 2014 15:41, Ralf Corsepius wrote: 1. Is there a yum compatibility test suite? It dnf is supposed to be a drop-in replacement, not having one would seem grossly silly and should be treated as "full stop show stopper". From someone that's

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 9. 6. 2014 at 16:41:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 06/09/2014 02:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > >>> till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. > >>> IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacem

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Richard Hughes
On 9 June 2014 15:41, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 1. Is there a yum compatibility test suite? It dnf is supposed to be a > drop-in replacement, not having one would seem grossly silly and should be > treated as "full stop show stopper". From someone that's had to work with the yum API in the past, I

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 06/09/2014 02:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum. Yes, that's the plan. There are some differences b

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 00:58 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/09/2014 12:48 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > > Nope, yumex has only a very little to do with yum, it's a separate project. > > You can use PackageKit or the GNOME software center which will both soon > > use the same underlying libraries dnf uses.

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 09:45 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 6. 6. 2014 at 16:56:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 14:46 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > > > wondering: is there stuff p

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Juan P. Daza P.
I'm using version 0.3.11 and the proxy options are not used when update, install, etc. On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > > wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they > > ha

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 10:03:06PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > I did, although I suppose I can vote more than once if it helps. :) > Yes. But make sure you use an assumed name. :-) For the record, I'm not actually voting more than once. :) -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader -- users

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/09/14 21:47, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:06:32PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel >>> I think this and the protected-packages behavior in general is important to >>> carry forward. >> Make sure you make your opinion known

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:06:32PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel > > I think this and the protected-packages behavior in general is important to > > carry forward. > Make sure you make your opinion known here. > http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/06/

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 08:30:01 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > > till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. > > > IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum. > > Yes, that's the plan. T

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/09/14 20:30, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:14:01PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel > I think this and the protected-packages behavior in general is important to > carry forward. > Make sure you make your opinion known here.

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:14:01PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel I think this and the protected-packages behavior in general is important to carry forward. -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills. > > IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum. > Yes, that's the plan. There are some differences but they are all well > documented. Is

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 06/08/2014 02:02 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: For me, the essential properties of yum are simplicity and reliability. Thanks Timothy for bringing this up. The focus in DNF development is on those priorities just as much as on speed. Users experience very little problems with the stable releas

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 9. 6. 2014 at 00:58:31, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/09/2014 12:48 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: > > Nope, yumex has only a very little to do with yum, it's a separate > > project. > > You can use PackageKit or the GNOME software center which will both soon > > use the same underlying libraries dnf uses. >

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/09/14 15:59, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 8. 6. 2014 at 09:45:44, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 06/06/14 20:46, Ales Kozumplik wrote: >>> The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're >>> wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they >>> have got recently i

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 8. 6. 2014 at 09:45:44, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/06/14 20:46, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > > wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they > > have got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've put

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/09/2014 12:48 AM, Jan Zelený wrote: Nope, yumex has only a very little to do with yum, it's a separate project. You can use PackageKit or the GNOME software center which will both soon use the same underlying libraries dnf uses. And what do I use if I don't use Gnome but want a GUI? -- us

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 7. 6. 2014 at 13:08:42, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Sudhir Khanger wrote: > >> The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > > > > wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they have > > got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've put together

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 6. 6. 2014 at 09:20:33, Luke Nath wrote: > > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:46:23 +0200 > > From: akozu...@redhat.com > > To: de...@lists.fedoraproject.org; yum-de...@lists.baseurl.org; > > users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Save everybody some surprises in > > Fedora 22! > > > > Hello, > > > >

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-09 Thread Jan Zelený
On 6. 6. 2014 at 16:56:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 14:46 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > > wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they > > have got recently

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-08 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.06.2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is wrong with yum? > It has worked faultlessly and painlessly for me for years, > with addons to deal with every conceivable problem. > If there is some problem with it, > why not simply deal with that problem > instead of inventing a completely

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/06/14 20:46, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they have > got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've put together a very short > and simple survey. Let yo

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > For me, the essential properties of yum are simplicity and reliability. > Speed is not that important, > Sure but if you can get better speed without sacrificing the things you care about (since dnf essentially has the same command lin

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I don't prefer to wait at all and > want the process to go as fast as it can. I have to deal with many more > updates as a package maintainer and slowing me down will reduce the amount > of time I can spend getting users the updates they want. So it likely > affects you

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > Can we vote for features we want removed, like multilib that's not a yum feature, but a distribution-wide one. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users F

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/06/2014 07:46 AM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: > Hello, > > The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing. We're > wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF that they > have got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've put together a > very short and simple

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > Those of us who have to consider "usage" are willing to wait for the rpm rebuilding >process Don't think you can speak for all of us. I don't prefer to wait at all and want the process to go as fast as it can. I have to de

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/07/14 09:08, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: Not so an ordinary human could notice it compared (for example) to the time it takes to rebuild the rpms from the deltas. ... which happens to be another thing dnf fixes Rahul Those

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> For one thing the depsolving algorithm used by yum is slow. >> >>Not so an ordinary human could notice it compared (for >>example) to the time it takes to rebuild the rpms >>from the deltas. > > That depends on how much stuff you update at once. Try updating 6000 > pack

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Not so an ordinary human could notice it compared (for > example) to the time it takes to rebuild the rpms > from the deltas. > ... which happens to be another thing dnf fixes Rahul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

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