On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:53 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/25/19 10:04 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 6:39 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Dne 24. 04. 19 v 23:04 Ben Cotton napsal(a): > >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Set_skip_if_unavailable_default_to_false > >>> > >>> == Summary == > >>> Dnf team wants to change a default setting for the repo option > >>> `skip_if_unavailable` to `FALSE`. > > >>> The default behavior could be overwritten by a > >>> configuration of each repository or in dnf by configuration in > >>> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. > > > > Or overridden for specific repositories as needed in mock, koji, or > > the individual .repo files. I intensely dislike the exclussion in > > fedora.repo: the only reason I can see for it is to enable the Media > > repository with no other work and have things kind-of, sort-of work. > > > >>> The behavior is not new, because it was used already by YUM, and the > >>> behavior is really essential because all Fedora ropos are already > >>> shipped with `skip_if_unavailable=FALSE`. > > > > Which I think was a horrible, horrible idea, for reasons mentioned above. > > It sounds to me like you are misunderstanding the setting. When it is > set to false, you can't do updates when a repository is missing. It > won't skip them. You can only do an update if all repositories are > available and can be checked. Gahhh. I read the logic backwards. I take back my objection, "False" is the much safer option, in general, and should be overruled on a case by case basis. The difficulty is that people used to the convention are going to wind up confused. Perhaps it should be explicitly listed in the [main] stanza ? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
