[Rpm-ecosystem] System upgrades in general (was Re: Fedora system upgrades in DNF)

Honza Šilhan jsilhan at redhat.com
Mon Aug 3 08:39:06 UTC 2015


> From: "Will Woods" <wwoods at redhat.com>
ct: Re: [Rpm-ecosystem] System upgrades in general (was Re: Fedora system upgrades in DNF)
> On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 14:21 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> 
> > I agree Stephen here, however I also have a more general point that I
> > don't think that the plugin should be called "fedup" unless we don't
> > intend for this plugin to be more generally useful to anyone who
> > wants to use DNF for their repository manager. Plus, though the name
> > "fedup" is funny, I don't think it's a great idea to actually have
> > the name of the plugin to be that.
> 
> I'm planning to name the plugin command "dnf system-upgrade", and have
> /usr/bin/fedup remain only as a compatibility wrapper[1].

I like the name "system-upgrade". Do you plan to ship non-conflicting fedup version
(fedup-deprecated?) based on yum-deprecated in F23 too?

> [1] Actually it's more like a DNF extension, so maybe it should be
> "fedora-system-upgrade-extension". But that's really long...
> Ah, let's abbreviate that to "fedora-s-u-x". Perfect!

Honza


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