Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2010-12-22 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:51 PM, James Antill wrote: > > Blah, it's been way too long and this first attempt mostly seems to > work. > What this patch does: > > 1. Stores a list of installed group id's, but only ID's ... we don't try > to store the 666 names. > > 2. Stores a list of all package

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2010-12-21 Thread James Antill
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 18:12 -0400, James Antill wrote: > Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly > wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think > so :). > > I think the "big" issue people want to change is that given: > > yum install

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Festi
Hi everybody! I very much appreciate the effort to improve the handling of groups in yum. Nevertheless I think this effort is too short sighted. The mechanisms we use to handle packages still date back to the time where Fedora had 1500 packages. We've see a growth (in number of packages) by

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-06-01 Thread James Antill
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 06:22 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > On 05/26/2009 09:21 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > There's still some amount of fiddles and bits perhaps required due to > > repo enabling/disabling. But it feels a little bit better if we can get > > the information into the rpmdb rather than

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-06-01 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 15:21 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tuesday, May 26 2009, Seth Vidal said: > > On Fri, 22 May 2009, James Antill wrote: > >> Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly > >> wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think > >>

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-05-26 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On 05/26/2009 09:21 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote: On Tuesday, May 26 2009, Seth Vidal said: On Fri, 22 May 2009, James Antill wrote: Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think so :). [

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-05-26 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tuesday, May 26 2009, Seth Vidal said: > On Fri, 22 May 2009, James Antill wrote: >> Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly >> wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think >> so :). [snip] >> ...a couple of things that fall out of this: >

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-05-26 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 22 May 2009, James Antill wrote: Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think so :). I think the "big" issue people want to change is that given: yum install blah-package-in-KDE-

Re: [Yum-devel] group DB

2009-05-22 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On 05/23/2009 12:12 AM, James Antill wrote: Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think so :). I think the "big" issue people want to change is that given: yum install blah-package-in-KDE

[Yum-devel] group DB

2009-05-22 Thread James Antill
Some thoughts about group DB (having groups as real objects). I mainly wrote this for me, to see if "group DB" was actually possible. I think so :). I think the "big" issue people want to change is that given: yum install blah-package-in-KDE-group yum groupinstall KDE yu