On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Radek Holy <rh...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Dear users of YUM and DNF, > > 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? > > 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: > > [snip] Hi, 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. 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". 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. 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). 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. I have not yet tried dnf at all. -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
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