Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/02/2014 12:54 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel is spared. There is no reason to keep this in DNF, the user can always specify

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:22:41 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch wrote: (Murphy says that it will :) ) Thanks! Adrian I said nothing of the kind! ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 01/03/2014 12:29 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:22:41 +0200 Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch wrote: (Murphy says that it will :) ) Thanks! Adrian I said nothing of the kind! :)) Sorry, i was talking about this [1] But, wouldn't you agree with the statement?

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote: On 01/02/2014 03:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That would imply that someone actually took the decision to *remove* the protections against leaving the system with no installed kernel. Was this discussed? What were the

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 02 January 2014, Ales Kozumplik sent: In practice however, a user doesn't type 'dnf erase -y kernel' by accident and we don't feel the need to protect users who really know what they are doing from doing so. It's the same situation as 'rm -rf /boot' or 'rpm -e

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That would imply that someone actually took the decision to *remove* the protections against leaving the system with no installed kernel. Was this discussed? What were the proposers smoking? I don't think that is implied here.

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch wrote: On 01/02/2014 12:54 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:33:18 +0100 Ales Kozumplik akozu...@redhat.com wrote: We look forward to hear your feedback and kindly ask you to use bugzilla to report any issues found. How does it handle yum plugins?, I use yum (updateonboot) --security on all daily reboot boxes. # + all other

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 01/02/2014 11:45 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:33:18 +0100 Ales Kozumplik akozu...@redhat.com wrote: We look forward to hear your feedback and kindly ask you to use bugzilla to report any issues found. How does it handle yum plugins?, I use yum (updateonboot) --security

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Ales Kozumplik
A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel is spared. There is no reason to keep this in DNF, the user can always specify concrete versions on the command line, e.g.: dnf

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:50:56 +0100 Ales Kozumplik akozu...@redhat.com wrote: we won't support Yum plugins directly but will support a plugin mechanism and will actively help with porting the plugins. If there are specific plugins you'd like to see sooner please open bugs for them.

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/02/2014 11:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel is spared. There is no reason to keep this in DNF, the user can always specify

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 01/02/2014 12:13 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: The kernel is a master piece of a package which must be allowed to be installed in multiple instances and of which at least the running instance must not be removed under any circumstances. Thanks Ralf. Just to clarify: DNF supports multiple

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Ales Kozumplik
On 01/02/2014 11:58 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:50:56 +0100 Ales Kozumplik akozu...@redhat.com wrote: we won't support Yum plugins directly but will support a plugin mechanism and will actively help with porting the plugins. If there are specific plugins you'd like to see

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik akozu...@redhat.com wrote: yes that's the idea. In practice however, a user doesn't type 'dnf erase -y kernel' by accident and we don't feel the need to protect users who really know what they are doing from doing so. It's the same situation as

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/02/2014 11:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: yes that's the idea. In practice however, a user doesn't type 'dnf erase -y kernel' by accident and we don't feel the need to protect users who really know what they are doing from doing so. I would urge you to reconsider this given the importance

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:01:09PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik akozu...@redhat.com wrote: yes that's the idea. In practice however, a user doesn't type 'dnf erase -y kernel' by accident and we don't feel the need to protect users who

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:15:22 +0100 Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any scenario where removing all kernels would make sense? writing malware :) ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ales Kozumplik wrote: On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Yum works perfectly well, in my experience. The problems you discuss are never met by the

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Jan Zelený
On 2. 1. 2014 at 13:32:23, Timothy Murphy wrote: Ales Kozumplik wrote: On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Yum works perfectly well, in my

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Markku Kolkka
2.1.2014 14:15, Suvayu Ali kirjoitti: Is there any scenario where removing all kernels would make sense? If you are running a custom kernel compiled from a tarball, removing all kernel RPM packages may make sense. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kol...@iki.fi -- users mailing list

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread poma
On 02.01.2014 12:13, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/02/2014 11:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel is spared. There is no reason to keep

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/02/2014 02:01 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: On 2. 1. 2014 at 13:32:23, Timothy Murphy wrote: Ales Kozumplik wrote: On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22.

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 02/01/14 18:10, poma wrote: On 02.01.2014 12:13, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/02/2014 11:54 AM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: A question, I found the following on http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel In Yum, the running kernel is

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 19:15 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Says who and has decided who? If Fedora was an openly lead project, a yum competitor such as dnf would be evaluated against yum and a decision be drawn at an arbitrary future point in time. This is the first I've heard of dnf,

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: At this point I will repeat that dnf is based on the original yum code so for vast majority of users the change will not be noticeable and everything will continue to work the same. That would imply that someone actually

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 2, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: At this point I will repeat that dnf is based on the original yum code so for vast majority of users the change will not be noticeable and

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/02/2014 03:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That would imply that someone actually took the decision to *remove* the protections against leaving the system with no installed kernel. Was this discussed? What were the proposers smoking? It's always been a principle that *nix won't stop

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-02 Thread bruce
Hi. I'm not a power user of yum. I''ve never used dnf, didn't even know it existed until a few days ago via this thread. And I don't mean this to be a dig at the dev team of the app/function. However, given some of the points made in this thread, I'm wondering if the devs of this app have

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-01 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 12/20/2013 12:33 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Please check out the blog post for more information: A question, I

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:33:18PM +0100, Ales Kozumplik wrote: Hello, On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Please check out the blog post for more

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
HI On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I have been using this since F20 release. I noticed there is no completion available, unlike yum. I can probably reuse yum's completion with dnf by simply `complete -F _yum dnf', but I'm afraid that will be unaware of the subtle

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-01 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 2 January 2014 02:07, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: HI On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: I have been using this since F20 release. I noticed there is no completion available, unlike yum. I can probably reuse yum's completion with dnf by simply `complete -F

Re: announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2014-01-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/01/2014 11:13 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 12/20/2013 12:33 PM, Ales Kozumplik wrote: On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Please check out

announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

2013-12-20 Thread Ales Kozumplik
Hello, On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22. Please check out the blog post for more information: