On Fri, 2017-05-19 at 10:20 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: > Hello! > > I had an idea for a summer internship project, but I wanted to ask my > fellow Fedora devs if something like this already exists so it > doesn't > get created as a duplicate project. > > The idea is to create a dnf plugin that would allow you to do this: > > $ sudo dnf upgrade FEDORA-2017-30604deb62 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234930#c18 claims that dnf equivalent of “yum update --security” is available in dnf 2.something also https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/221983/dnf-equivalent-of-yum-update-security hope that can help you . > That update is a Gnome update, and likely has packages in it that you > don't use, but others that you do. The plugin would compare the > packages in the update against your installed set of packages to form > and execute the true dnf update command that should be run without > installing new packages (unless they are required). It would also > enable updates-testing of course. It could even be written to pull > the > rpms from Koji if the update hasn't hit testing yet. > > I've found that it is a little painful for me to test multi-package > updates when I don't use all the RPMs and I don't keep updates- > testing > enabled on my system, so that's my motivation behind the idea. Does > anything like this already exist? If not, does it sound like a useful > tool to others? > > It could also support the install command, in which case it would > just > install all the RPMs from the update. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
