On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:37 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On 03/18/2013 03:17 PM, James Antill wrote:
Kind of ... the rule is that all idempotent operations should match packages without caring about case sensitivity. So "yum install Mysql" doesn't work, but "yum list Mysql" does.
<pedantic> "Idempotent" means that that multiple applications of an operation have no further effect after the first one
True.
---so "yum install" is actually idempotent. </pedantic>
No, as install can still do upgrades etc.
So, what is the rule you are referring to? perhaps it could be described as covering "inconsequential operations".
Yeh, that's probably close. A longer explanation is probably:
Operations that are "read-only", from the users point of view, will match packages ignoring case sensitivity.
...or as a quick hack, if it says "list/info/search" at the end then it's probably good :).