Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-08-14)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Aug 16 19:20:57 UTC 2013


Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said: 
> On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 08:42 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote:
> > Actually no, the system is all hacked up and works in a super-abusive way, see 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979083
> 
> That bug is really an illustration why it is just wrong to keep
> information about the update history in a semi-private 'db' that only
> yum gets to access.
> 
> This information belongs into the journal. We have the change to fix
> that in the dnf transition. 

As long as the journal is rotated out at arbitrary times due to space
reasons, I really really don't think the information belongs there. 

It should still be in a public db for other things to use, though.

Bill


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