<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Radek Holy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rholy@redhat.com" target="_blank">rholy@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear users of YUM and DNF,<br>
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I'm writing to you regarding a request for your feedback. I would be very grateful if you could send me a brief description of how you use YUM or DNF currently or how would you like to use it. I am particularly interested in the occurrences of "dnf/yum install" calls in your scripts. What does these scripts do and what do they expect when they call the "install" command in different situations?<br>
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Please share with me the use cases, not the description of the "install" command. Think twice before you share something because I believe it's not as easy as it might seem. As an example I think it might be something like:<br>
<br></blockquote></div>[snip]<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi,<br><br>I typically use 'yum upgrade' because I just want to make sure I have the latest patches. Often, I will do 'yum --enablerepo=\* clean all' to ensure I don't have stale metadata, first.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I also occasionally use 'yum distro-sync' to drop orphaned packages, and rely heavily on plugins like "protectbase", "keys", "show-leaves", "remove-with-leaves", and "fastestmirror".<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I also sometimes use 'yum localinstall' to install specific packages with a URL or filename (to install RPMfusion repos, for example), because I don't want to see warnings about rpmdb modified outside of yum with using rpm directly.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I frequently use 'yum list installed' to and wildcard patterns to the list command to search for specific packages (because search tends to show 32-bit duplicates and I don't typically need the description, just the package name, when searching).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In cloud init scripts I frequently use '-y' and '--skip-broken' to install or upgrade specific sets of packages, because these scripts run non-interactively and I want to upgrade some things even when I can't upgrade everything. In my normal workstation environment, I typically only run yum manually from the command-line and don't need these.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I have not yet tried dnf at all.<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>--<br>Christopher L Tubbs II<br><a href="http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii" target="_blank">http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii</a></div></div></div>
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