[Fedora-packaging] Java naming scheme

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Jan 22 20:14:11 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 20:02 +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:05 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:59 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > > David Lutterkort wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:11 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > > >> seth vidal wrote:
> > > >>> why do you need a 'groupexclude' option? I guess I don't understand the
> > > >>> use case for it, yet.
> > > >>>
> > > >> For instance, to upgrade one's Fedora system without interfering with 
> > > >> the Java stack there.
> > > > 
> > > > What happens to your Java stack at that point ? Will it just stay
> > > > frozen ?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > That is the idea, update your Fedora system except for the Java 
> > > packages, which you can update selectively, from a different repo, from 
> > > local RPMs etc.
> > > 
> > 
> > so you want --groupexclude to exclude from the update all packages in
> > that group? Not exclude the group from the list of available groups?
> 
> This is starting to be OT for this list, but wouldn't it be better if
> users could just add groups into the existing mechanisms with a separate
> notation, similar to kickstart ? I.e., instead of a separate
> --groupexclude, allow --exclude=@java ?
> 

I don't terribly like special character delimiters like that.

-sv





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