[Yum-devel] New plugin: merge-conf

2007-04-09 Thread Aurelien Bompard
Hi yummers, There's a feature of another package manager that I like: when a config file has changed, it asks you if you want to keep your local copy or if you want to install the package's version. RPM is non-interactive, so it's not supposed to do this. But I thought this could be implemented

Re: [Yum-devel] New plugin: merge-conf

2007-04-09 Thread Tim Lauridsen
Aurelien Bompard wrote: Hi yummers, There's a feature of another package manager that I like: when a config file has changed, it asks you if you want to keep your local copy or if you want to install the package's version. RPM is non-interactive, so it's not supposed to do this. But I thought

Re: [Yum-devel] New plugin: merge-conf

2007-04-09 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:40 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote: Aurelien Bompard wrote: Hi yummers, There's a feature of another package manager that I like: when a config file has changed, it asks you if you want to keep your local copy or if you want to install the package's version. RPM is

[Yum-devel] Announcing RUM: offline update/install tool for YUM/RPM based systems.

2007-04-09 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I had in an earlier mail discussed the possibility of writing a separate tool, or an enhancement to YUM or Pirut for offline update/installation of packages on YUM/RPM based systems, specifically Fedora. This formed the basis of my application to Google Summer of Code 2007. You may find a copy

[Yum-devel] Re: Announcing RUM: offline update/install tool for YUM/RPM based systems.

2007-04-09 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 10:12 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Just a side note. The name Rum is already used by a package management tool: http://code.google.com/p/rum/ And one related to yum, no less. -sv ___ Yum-devel mailing list

[Yum-devel] [RFC] dbversion 10

2007-04-09 Thread James Bowes
Hi all: So here, for your amusement and subject to your general mockery, are two patches that modify the database in such a way as to break compatibility with existing code. In a nutshell, the code stores as many values as possible in the db as integers, rather than text. Also, it drops the

Re: [Yum-devel] [RFC] dbversion 10

2007-04-09 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 18:41 -0400, James Bowes wrote: Hi all: So here, for your amusement and subject to your general mockery, are two patches that modify the database in such a way as to break compatibility with existing code. In a nutshell, the code stores as many values as possible in