Re: DNF5-5.0.1 has a stable API

2023-07-27 Thread Casey Jao via devel
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 at 13:10, James Ralston Personally I would have preferred to call this a new tool versus trying to > use dnf name still. It makes it clearer that the break is going to happen. How about going back to yum? The yum name never completely went away in RHEL docs and still

Re: Heads-up / for discussion: dnf not working with 1G of RAM or less

2022-09-01 Thread Casey Jao via devel
Old rpm-ostree thread about this: https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/1127 1. Debian provides a comparably sized package catalog using one-tenth the size of Fedora's metadata. Are there any lessons that Fedora can learn from Debian? 2. Does SUSE have the same problem?

Re: F36 Change: Silverblue and Kinoite will have /var on its own Btrfs subvolume (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-01-19 Thread Casey Jao via devel
Doesn't rpm-ostree already provide transactional, image-based updates without the use of filesystem snapshots? In addition, roofs snapshots are only really useful if they are coordinated with bootloader management, which is already built into rpm-ostree but not yet written for a hypothetical

Re: Fwd: Thoughts on the file system layout

2021-01-08 Thread Casey Jao
Silverblue is already quite close to that proposal. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the same library installable

2015-02-20 Thread Casey Jao
On 02/16/2015 08:17 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/16/2015 05:10 PM, Martyn Foster wrote: On 16 February 2015 at 15:12, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at mailto:kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Christopher Meng wrote: Maintaining several version of the same library is not easy as

sorting yum/dnf metadata and metadata diffs

2015-02-12 Thread Casey Jao
How feasible would it be to keep the listings in primary.xml and filelists.xml sorted by package name and arch? Doing so could open the door to simple and efficient diffs of repository metadata. I recently ran some quick tests using python and elementtree. While the F21 primary.xml files from 2/7

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Casey Jao
On 02/05/2015 04:30 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: Here's a good example of problems with (the current approach for) online updates for Firefox: Flash plugin up to date but Firefox keeps telling me that I have the old version: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/174210/2511 Ignoring the

Re: on software updates

2015-02-05 Thread Casey Jao
On 02/04/2015 06:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 07:00 -0800, Casey Jao wrote: I understand where you are coming from and that a fedora user is likely to see frequent updates of lots of other packages anyway. But on slower moving distros where systems components rarely

Re: on software updates

2015-02-04 Thread Casey Jao
: On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 10:50 -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On 31 January 2015 at 21:57, Casey Jao casey@gmail.com wrote: Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? Yes, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps

Re: on software updates

2015-02-02 Thread Casey Jao
undertaking that will take some time to mature. I'm just wondering whether anything can be or might be done to improve the user experience in the interim. On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 31.01.2015 um 22:57 schrieb Casey Jao: Warning: long post

on software updates

2015-01-31 Thread Casey Jao
Warning: long post ahead. Are there any plans to let packages specify that they do not require a total system reboot to be updated? The other day, Gnome software prompted me to reboot just to update google chrome. Given that nothing depends on chrome, and also that the Linux version of chrome is

F22: Merge yumdb for yum-dnf migration?

2015-01-30 Thread Casey Jao
Hello, Currently dnf and yum have their own yumdb's, under /var/lib/dnf/yumdb and /var/lib/yum/yumdb respectively. Among other things, these databases record whether a package was explicitly installed by the user or pulled in automatically as a dependency of another package. This information is