Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: I'm a little lost in the thread, but do you mean that yum's protected packages functionality is undocumented? If that is what you mean, check the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/09/2014 07:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.01.2014 22:16, schrieb Przemek Klosowski: By the way, currently the protected list seems to be 'yum, systemd and running kernel'. I don't have a system to try it on what about the machine you sitting in front of? without -y flag yum asks if

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: I'm a little lost in the thread, but do you mean that yum's

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.01.2014 16:49, schrieb Dridi Boukelmoune: I actually remember a comparison matrix of OpenSolaris forks, some of them chose /rpm5?/ for package management, but I can't find a link. I do understand why people would want such features built-in, but it seems a bit short-sighted. And by

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 16:16 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 01/09/2014 01:58 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Latest installed is almost exactly not what you want, I've had plenty (where plenty in this case is probably 5) of cases where a kernel update broke something, in quite a few of those cases

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:41:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: By the way, currently the protected list seems to be 'yum, systemd and running kernel'. I don't have a system to try it on, so I just hope that one can't delete their dependencies either (glibc? what else?). No, you can't.

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.01.2014 20:55, schrieb Matthew Miller: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:41:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: By the way, currently the protected list seems to be 'yum, systemd and running kernel'. I don't have a system to try it on, so I just hope that one can't delete their dependencies

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: On 01/09/2014 07:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.01.2014 22:16, schrieb Przemek Klosowski: I think you can still brick the system with careless yum erases: for instance, deleting grub how would this delete

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com said: nod Just have yum drop a config file in there that protects the kernel rather than protecting the kernel if some other package chooses to protect something else. The magic don't delete the running kernel can't be done with just a

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Jan 7, 2014 4:53 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:28:59 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: look like it starts to happen again: a replacement which is not ready https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 It seems the majority

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 01/09/2014 03:56 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Jan 7, 2014 4:53 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com mailto:frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:28:59 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: look like it starts to happen again:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Jan 9, 2014 6:26 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com said: nod Just have yum drop a config file in there that protects the kernel rather than protecting the kernel if some other package chooses to protect something else. The

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.01.2014 16:03, schrieb Jiri Moskovcak: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 After asking on the bugzilla it seems that ales would like people who want this change to cc themselves on the bug report. If the cc reaches 40 he'll reconsider. Kinda a strange way of

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 01/09/2014 04:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.01.2014 16:03, schrieb Jiri Moskovcak: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 After asking on the bugzilla it seems that ales would like people who want this change to cc themselves on the bug report. If the cc reaches 40

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.01.2014 16:37, schrieb Jiri Moskovcak: On 01/09/2014 04:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.01.2014 16:03, schrieb Jiri Moskovcak: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 After asking on the bugzilla it seems that ales would like people who want this change to cc

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:03:06 +0100 Jiri Moskovcak jmosk...@redhat.com wrote: And what would be the right way to decide? And please stay assured that this is not a trolling, I would really like to see some agreement in Fedora on how to decide these kind of things. As we always have I think...

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Jiri Moskovcak
On 01/09/2014 04:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.01.2014 16:37, schrieb Jiri Moskovcak: On 01/09/2014 04:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.01.2014 16:03, schrieb Jiri Moskovcak: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 After asking on the bugzilla it seems that ales would

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:56:31 +0100 Jiri Moskovcak jmosk...@redhat.com wrote: Well, I can use dnf in it's current shape quite fine and it works faster than yum which I take as an improvement, so for me it's ok. So what now? --Jirka Then add your voice to the bz to keep it as is.

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 January 2014 15:13, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 9, 2014 6:26 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com said: nod Just have yum drop a config file in there that protects the kernel rather than protecting the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.01.2014 19:58, schrieb Ian Malone: On 9 January 2014 15:13, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 9, 2014 6:26 AM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com said: nod Just have yum drop a config file in there that protects

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/09/2014 01:58 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Latest installed is almost exactly not what you want, I've had plenty (where plenty in this case is probably 5) of cases where a kernel update broke something, in quite a few of those cases to a state where the system wouldn't boot. If the most recent

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Chris Adams wrote: The rescue kernel is another option, right there on the boot menu; if you actually removed all running kernels, it would be the _only_ Fedora option (and the only option at all on a system without multiple OSes installed, so booted by default). Not going to happen here, I

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: I'm a little lost in the thread, but do you mean that yum's protected packages functionality is undocumented? If that is what you mean, check the man page. It says: protected_packages This is a list of packages

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.01.2014 22:16, schrieb Przemek Klosowski: By the way, currently the protected list seems to be 'yum, systemd and running kernel'. I don't have a system to try it on what about the machine you sitting in front of? without -y flag yum asks if you mean your input serious so I just

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-08 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 01/05/2014 08:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: yum remove kernel is a clean and sane way to remove all but not the running kernels distribute-command.sh 'yum -y remove kernel' is used here for years on a ton of machines why do you think that a *replacement* should come up not support this? why

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: Another point: it shouldn't be hardwired into the package manager but rather result from package properties. I can see several ways to do it: - an 'essentiality' property in the RPM file - a yum/dnf

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:43:01PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: hence that is why whatever calls itself a replacement for yum should *not* support destroy the running system without whatever *force switch* I don't like the weird partial functionality of this feature. It is apparently

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: I'm a little lost in the thread, but do you mean that yum's protected packages functionality is undocumented? If that is what you mean, check the man page. It says: protected_packages This is a list of packages that yum should never

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-08 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: I'm a little lost in the thread, but do you mean that yum's protected packages functionality is undocumented? If that is what you mean, check the man page. It says:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 6.1.2014 23:26, Chris Murphy napsal(a): Since * remove kernel appears to be inspecific, removing all kernels isn't what I'd expect. It's not how mv or cp or anything else would work. So why not turn this around. In case somebody is doing dnf remove kernel and dnf will figures out that

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:48:16 +0100 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 6.1.2014 23:26, Chris Murphy napsal(a): Since * remove kernel appears to be inspecific, removing all kernels isn't what I'd expect. It's not how mv or cp or anything else would work. So why not turn this

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:48:16 +0100 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: Dne 6.1.2014 23:26, Chris Murphy napsal(a): Since * remove kernel appears to be inspecific, removing all kernels isn't what I'd expect. It's not

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:16:16 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: dnf remove kernel --all I assume you're suggestion that `dnf remove kernel` should only remove the latest kernel. How do you make that out. Have you ever used yum remove kernel dnf remove kernel --all

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:16:16 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: dnf remove kernel --all I assume you're suggestion that `dnf remove kernel` should only remove the latest kernel. How do you

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:52:52 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry I don't understand your answer. Dridi I can't make it any simpler. ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:52:52 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry I don't understand your answer. Dridi I can't make it any simpler. You could maybe explain what you meant in the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:12:39 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry for misunderstanding a command that didn't come with a single sentence. dnf remove kernel --all to remove all What's to misunderstand ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- devel mailing

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Ian Malone
On 6 January 2014 13:06, Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: I don't even remember I ever needed yum remove kernel. Does it mean that yum remove kernel should not work at all no matter if it leaves running kernel on the system or not? Or should it be completely prohibited? Why we keep 3

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:12:39 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry for misunderstanding a command that didn't come with a single sentence. dnf remove kernel --all to remove all What's to

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 7.1.2014 10:52, Dridi Boukelmoune napsal(a): On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:16:16 +0100 Dridi Boukelmoune dridi.boukelmo...@gmail.com wrote: dnf remove kernel --all I assume you're suggestion that `dnf remove kernel` should

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 7.1.2014 11:34, Ian Malone napsal(a): On 6 January 2014 13:06, Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: I don't even remember I ever needed yum remove kernel. Does it mean that yum remove kernel should not work at all no matter if it leaves running kernel on the system or not? Or should it

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.01.2014 12:06, schrieb Vít Ondruch: Dne 7.1.2014 11:34, Ian Malone napsal(a): On 6 January 2014 13:06, Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com wrote: I don't even remember I ever needed yum remove kernel. Does it mean that yum remove kernel should not work at all no matter if it leaves

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:56:04 -0500 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: * yum remove kernel vs dnf remove kernel difference (unfiled? ) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:28:59 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: look like it starts to happen again: a replacement which is not ready https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049310 It seems the majority want the current dnf default [1] to be kept Those who want to keep

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-07 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:52:00PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: Protected packages was first implemented * as a yum plugin because Seth thought it was kind of crazy and shouldn't be core functionality, but then it proved itself in real use and became built-in. Now, the DNF pages says Similar

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 08:13 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 08:01 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/06/2014 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: ... If it exists for backward compatibility, it doesn't necessarily need to be documented. Ehh? Why? Could you elaborate? I don't see

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 07:24 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: Three documentation bugs out of a side track of a thread is not a terrible thread, in my opinion... Yum auto completion missing erase: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048714 dnf man page missing to mention remove:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 5.1.2014 22:25, Till Maas napsal(a): On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:06:16PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Frankly, that's a dumb feature

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Also, even removing every kernel RPM will not render your system non-recoverable. You can always use a boot CD, and in modern Fedora systems, the rescue kernel/initramfs are never removed (not owned by any RPM), so

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 12:43 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Otherwise, I totally agree with Chris and with DNF upstream. dnf remove kernel should remove every kernel and should not behave magically. What would be the point in removing the running kernel? Is there actually such a use case? Lars -- Lars E.

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 6.1.2014 13:31, Lars E. Pettersson napsal(a): On 01/06/2014 12:43 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Otherwise, I totally agree with Chris and with DNF upstream. dnf remove kernel should remove every kernel and should not behave magically. What would be the point in removing the running kernel? Is

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 02:06 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.1.2014 13:31, Lars E. Pettersson napsal(a): ... What would be the point in removing the running kernel? Is there actually such a use case? Lars Why are you asking? May be you should let your imagination run riot. Why? Isn't that obvious? If

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 01/06/2014 03:32 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/06/2014 02:06 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.1.2014 13:31, Lars E. Pettersson napsal(a): ... What would be the point in removing the running kernel? Is there actually such a use case? Lars Why are you asking? May be you should let your

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.01.2014 14:06, schrieb Vít Ondruch: Also, I'd like to point out that yum/dnf remove by default shows what it is going to do and you have to explicitly confirm the action, isn't it enough? How much protection do you need? to say it clear - *all* protection to avoid breaking the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread H . Guémar
This discussion has now reached the phoronix point http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTU2MTE Has anyone filed any tickets so we could move forward or will we continue wasting time here ? Best regards, H. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.01.2014 15:39, schrieb Petr Viktorin: On 01/06/2014 03:32 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/06/2014 02:06 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.1.2014 13:31, Lars E. Pettersson napsal(a): ... What would be the point in removing the running kernel? Is there actually such a use case? Lars

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: On 01/06/2014 02:06 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.1.2014 13:31, Lars E. Pettersson napsal(a): ... What would be the point in removing the running kernel? Is there actually such a use case? Lars Why are you asking?

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Tomas Mlcoch
- Original Message - Am 06.01.2014 14:06, schrieb Vít Ondruch: Also, I'd like to point out that yum/dnf remove by default shows what it is going to do and you have to explicitly confirm the action, isn't it enough? How much protection do you need? to say it clear - *all*

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.01.2014 16:12, schrieb Tomas Mlcoch: Am 06.01.2014 14:06, schrieb Vít Ondruch: Also, I'd like to point out that yum/dnf remove by default shows what it is going to do and you have to explicitly confirm the action, isn't it enough? How much protection do you need? to say it clear -

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:30:20 +0100 poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: On 04.01.2014 21:09, Adam Williamson wrote: Because yum's code is a mess. curl -s http://www.textfiles.com/art/monkey.vt From Yum with Love. poma I don't think that helps ___ Regards, Frank

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread poma
On 04.01.2014 21:09, Adam Williamson wrote: Because yum's code is a mess. curl -s http://www.textfiles.com/art/monkey.vt From Yum with Love. poma -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread poma
On 06.01.2014 16:32, Frank Murphy wrote: I don't think that helps Au contraire. You should not run this command in the same way as dnf remove kernel. Maybe we should write a plug-in to provide a safety mechanism!? :) poma -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread H . Guémar
Congratulations for lowering the level of this discussion even lower than it already was ! H. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread poma
On 06.01.2014 16:50, H. Guémar wrote: Congratulations for lowering the level of this discussion even lower than it already was ! Au contraire. Users Are Always Right! Love It, Learn It! poma -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 05:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: ... The reason for me asking was that you accused me of excoriating the dnf devs (a rather harsh accusation) just because I did not try erase/remove. I looked at the documentation and used auto completion. Why would I try a number of different

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 09:26 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/06/2014 08:13 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 08:01 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/06/2014 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: ... If it exists for backward compatibility, it doesn't necessarily need

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 17:22 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/06/2014 05:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: ... The reason for me asking was that you accused me of excoriating the dnf devs (a rather harsh accusation) just because I did not try erase/remove. I looked at the documentation

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 05:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: It's a nice theory. Sure. It's not a tenable basis on which to operate in the real world of software. So if you want to argue that something doesn't exist, check whether it exists. If you only check the documentation, you're not checking the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5 January 2014 18:12, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: the ordianry user - i doubt The ordinary user won't do yum erase kernel either, so that's moot. The rescue kernel is another option, right there on the boot menu; if you actually removed all running kernels, it would be the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:38:46 -0700 Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: If an expert says no ordinary user would ever do a command, they have not worked front line Tech Support recently enough. aside: but true User- can you replace my modem, it doesn't work CSR: - can you do x,y,z .

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 January 2014 18:12, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: the ordianry user - i doubt The ordinary user won't do yum erase kernel either, so that's moot. The rescue kernel is another option, right there on

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Mattia Verga
Il 05/01/2014 00:13, Adam Williamson ha scritto: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 21:41 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: On 2014-01-04 21:31, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/04/2014 08:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: * yum remove kernel vs dnf remove kernel difference (unfiled? ) I found 976704, closed with

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 09:23, schrieb Mattia Verga: Il 05/01/2014 00:13, Adam Williamson ha scritto: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 21:41 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: On 2014-01-04 21:31, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/04/2014 08:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: * yum remove kernel vs dnf remove kernel

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 09:40, schrieb Reindl Harald: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel and that is clearly a regression how likely is that somebody want to delete

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Yes, I have read that, but (strongly) disagree. The running kernel should not be

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Mattia Verga
Il 05/01/2014 10:27, Lars E. Pettersson ha scritto: Yes, I have read that, but (strongly) disagree. I agree in your disagreement! ;-) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Dridi Boukelmoune
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: why did they change remove into erase? Yum actually offers both erase and remove for the same purpose. I don't know which is an alias of the other, but rpm uses erase. From the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 12:02 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: why did they change remove into erase? Yum actually offers both erase and remove for the same purpose. I don't know which is

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:16:36 +0100 Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: Ah, did not know that, if you try to auto complete yum only remove shows up, but erase also works. So perhaps erase was an afterthought, to mimic the rpm behavior. If rpm has erase, and yum also can use erase, perhaps

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 12:21, schrieb Frank Murphy: On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:16:36 +0100 Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: Ah, did not know that, if you try to auto complete yum only remove shows up, but erase also works. So perhaps erase was an afterthought, to mimic the rpm behavior. If rpm

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Yes, I have read

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 12:34 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 05.01.2014 12:21, schrieb Frank Murphy: On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:16:36 +0100 Lars E. Pettersson l...@homer.se wrote: Ah, did not know that, if you try to auto complete yum only remove shows up, but erase also works. So perhaps

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 19:07, schrieb Adam Williamson: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/05/2014 09:23 AM, Mattia Verga wrote: They really want to make dnf work this way. This is explained here:

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... The running kernel should not be removed with a simple 'dnf erase kernel' (why did they change remove into erase?), They

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 07:24 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: As I mentioned before I only auto completed yum, remove is not party of the auto completed commands. If remove should be there, then this is a bug. I will file one. Pressed send a bit too early. Should of course be 'erase' here, not

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Naheem Zaffar
A solution may be for someone to write a plugin that restores the protected packages feature. Fedora users are clearly used to such a feature and expect it while upstream doesnt want to add hand holding features, but provide a method to do the same. On 5 January 2014 18:32, Lars E. Pettersson

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 20:06, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Frankly, that's a dumb feature to have the package manager know magic things about some

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/04/2014 03:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 10:50 +0100, Mattia Verga wrote: This is the first time I heard of DNF. Looking at the page where differences between DNF and yum are explained (http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html) my question is: do we really need

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:06:16PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel Frankly, that's a dumb feature to have the package manager know magic

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: i say the same thing to the autopager and cutted output of systemctl and journalctl and the repsonse there is we are not Unix, we are Linux Yeah, I dislike that as well. If I want paged output, I'll page it; if I want cut output,

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 23:33, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: i say the same thing to the autopager and cutted output of systemctl and journalctl and the repsonse there is we are not Unix, we are Linux Yeah, I dislike that as well. If I want paged

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself bringing your system in a non-recoverable state? I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a couple that came to mind, certainly not an

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.01.2014 23:53, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself bringing your system in a non-recoverable state? I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 19:24 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/05/2014 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... The running kernel should not be removed with a simple 'dnf

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: border cases where you can use --nodeps What does --nodeps have to do with this? this is *really* a border case where download and rpm -Uvh --force is the way to go No, you should do it correctly. First, AFAIK rpm doesn't have the

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 06.01.2014 02:12, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: border cases where you can use --nodeps What does --nodeps have to do with this? border cases are not usual behavior? this is *really* a border case where download and rpm -Uvh --force

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 02:33 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 06.01.2014 02:12, schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: border cases where you can use --nodeps What does --nodeps have to do with this? border cases are not usual behavior? His

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/05/2014 11:53 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net said: where would it be useful to uninstall base-package and YUM/DNF itself bringing your system in a non-recoverable state? I already offered a couple of examples that you ignored (just a couple

Re: dnf versus yum

2014-01-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 01/06/2014 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 19:24 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... As I mentioned before I only auto completed yum, remove is not party of the auto completed commands. If remove should be there, then this is a bug. I will file one. dnf has no auto

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