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

[Jan Zelený]

On 16. 8. 2013 at 15:20:57, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. This information doesn't belong to journal and we have no intentions 
to put it there.

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

We already have a plan to extract the db-handling code from dnf to an external 
library. That should make the situation more developer friendly.

Thanks
Jan