21:16:38 <rdieter> #startmeeting yum and friends 21:16:38 <zodbot> Meeting started Sat Dec 5 21:16:38 2009 UTC. The chair is rdieter. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 21:16:38 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 21:16:45 <rdieter> starting a bit late... 21:16:49 <rdieter> #topic yum history 21:16:53 <rdieter> commands: 21:17:05 <rdieter> List, Summary, Info, Undo, Redo/repeat, New 21:17:12 <rdieter> examples... 21:17:16 <rdieter> yum history list 21:18:50 <rdieter> yum history summary 21:19:44 <rdieter> seth rants on zsh a little bit... 21:19:56 <rdieter> an example of something he installs, uninstalls a lot 21:20:04 <rdieter> yum history info 21:21:39 <rdieter> yum history undo 21:22:36 <rdieter> warning, don't undo ...say... upgrade f11 -> f12. :) 21:22:55 <rdieter> or if the version you want to back down to no longer exists in any available repo 21:24:20 <rdieter> yum history redo 21:24:58 <rdieter> yum history new 21:30:54 <rdieter> mentions... the "Warning: RPMDB has been altered since the last yum transaction", ie, rpm was used in between 21:31:08 <rdieter> #topic yum version 21:31:39 <rdieter> generate a unique identifier for the current installed set of pkigs or a specific set of pkgs. Useful for quickly comparing systems 21:33:25 <rdieter> #topic other new items 21:33:32 <rdieter> yum version was one of those new items (sorry) 21:34:01 <rdieter> SSL certificates for authentication to repositories 21:34:20 <rdieter> yum downgrade 21:36:06 <rdieter> #topic new items (and friends) 21:36:23 <rdieter> createrepo: deltarpms, arbitrary-url for pkgs, mergerepos 21:38:01 <rdieter> yum-utils: needs-restarting 21:39:42 <rdieter> #topic Find new things 21:40:03 <rdieter> #link http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew 21:40:24 <rdieter> #topic future plans 21:40:38 <rdieter> Weakdeps? 21:41:05 <rdieter> policy is a hard part... 21:41:27 <rdieter> weakdops not in packages, but be in external metadata 21:43:35 <rdieter> * tags/keyword searching from fedora's packagedb 21:44:36 <rdieter> adding external metadata tied into pkgdb to help searching 21:45:23 <rdieter> summary/description translation files (ie, doing specspo better) 21:46:21 <rdieter> use translated forms of the metadata 21:47:09 <rdieter> work in progress, work needs to happen to translate *lots* of stuff 21:47:09 <rdieter> python 3.0 compat? 21:47:45 <rdieter> Api breaking? 21:48:23 <rdieter> Parallel downloads? (on short list) 21:49:45 <rdieter> what else do we need? 21:50:53 <rdieter> yum-complate-transaction ... 21:51:07 <rdieter> helps aborted transactions, but need to be careful. 21:52:52 <rdieter> #topic credits 21:52:59 <rdieter> James Antill 21:53:01 <rdieter> Tim Lauridisen 21:53:08 <rdieter> Ville Skytta 21:53:39 <rdieter> many many translators 21:53:47 <rdieter> yum is now using transifex 21:53:52 <rdieter> #topic help needed 21:54:14 <rdieter> if interested in helping out, contact yum-devel mailing list, yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org 21:54:44 <rdieter> docs 21:54:48 <rdieter> #topic Q&A 21:55:07 <rdieter> This is where we ask Seth difficult questions about why yum sucks and/or he sucks. 21:55:10 <rdieter> :) 21:56:40 <rdieter> #endmeeting