On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 1:20 PM Carl George <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:33 AM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:22 PM Carl George <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 5:12 PM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I'm totally top-posting, and I apologize for that.
> >> >
> >> > For right now, I'm going to put my enable-crb script in epel-release,
> but not automatically run it in a %post script or anything.
> >> > The debate about putting it in a post script, or a separate package,
> can go on independently of the script.
> >> >
> >> > This does a few things.
> >> > - give people a single, easy to remember way to enable crb
> >> > -- Right now if you install anything but RHEL you might remember "dnf
> install epel-release" but then you forget what the dnf command is to enable
> a repo, and you might forget if it's crb or powertools.
> >> > -- It will make scripting easier because you just have one command
> that will work across all RHEL compatibles.
> >> >
> >> > - gives the script a chance to find all the corner cases
> >> > -- It's worked on everything I've tried thus far, but I'm sure there
> are some corner cases or two where the script doesn't work.
> >> >
> >> > I was thinking of it being
> >> >   /usr/bin/enable-crb
> >> >   /usr/bin/epel-enable-crb (a link to enable-crb)
> >> >
> >> > Thoughts?
> >> >
> >> > Troy
> >> >
> >> I think it would be nice to be able to both enable and disable from
> >> the same script.  This would come in handy when you are looking for
> >> things that don't install when crb is disabled.  I don't see anything
> >> else in Fedora or RHEL that ships a command with the name crb, so how
> >> about that?
> >>
> >> crb enable
> >> crb disable
> >
> >
> > That shouldn't be too hard.  I'm going to give it a shot.
> > If that takes too long, I'll just push what I currently have for now.
> >
> > I notice that you said crb-enable, crb-disable.
> > Do you like having the name first, or the function first?
> >
> > enable-crb vs crb-enable  ?
> >
> > either way I want to have it by itself, as well as starting with epel
> >
> > epel-enable-crb  vs epel-crb-enable  ?
> >
> > Troy
> >
> I was specifically suggesting /usr/bin/crb, accepting a single
> argument of enable or disable.  I can't find anything else in Fedora
> or RHEL using that path.
>
> What would be the purpose of prefixing it with "epel-"?  It's not "CRB
> from EPEL", it's a generic script for enabling/disabling the crb repo
> that just happens to be included in the epel-release package.
>

crb is as good as anything else.
I'll use that, with options.

Troy
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