Re: [Yum-devel] [RFC] Split yum into separate processes

2010-09-20 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:34 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > inside urlgrabber. > > One problem here is that you need to get all the SSL configuration/etc. > > into the helper ... and you need to get the progress info. out. Apart > > from those though, it should be "pretty simple". > > Agreed - ultimat

Re: [Yum-devel] [RFC] Split yum into separate processes

2010-09-20 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 18:07 -0400, James Antill wrote: > We've been talking about this off and on, because for obvious reasons > it ties into doing parallel downloads (and would be pretty cool > anyway :). > So here are our random thoughts (that I can remember, Seth might answer > on Monday if I

Re: [Yum-devel] [RFC] Split yum into separate processes

2010-09-20 Thread seth vidal
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 22:59 +0200, Terje Røsten wrote: > Steve Lawrence > > A few months ago we talked about the possibility of splitting yum into > > separate processes so that SELinux could be used to confine access. > > If this is done, multithreading / multiprocess should be considered to >

Re: [Yum-devel] remove-with-leaves plugin: check install reason

2010-09-20 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 01:49 -0700, Casey Jao wrote: > "wouldn't it skip removing all packages that were installed due to being > dependency of *something*, not just the chrome package?" > > The patch skips all packages that were installed explicitly by the user > (and hence has a reason flag of "u

[Yum-devel] remove-with-leaves plugin: check install reason

2010-09-20 Thread Casey Jao
"wouldn't it skip removing all packages that were installed due to being dependency of *something*, not just the chrome package?" The patch skips all packages that were installed explicitly by the user (and hence has a reason flag of "user"). "I'd also appreciate if it would list the remaining le