Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/08/2018 12:59 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 9/3/18 6:13 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... ah, so the replacement of those cross-directory hardlinks with symlinks will happen in F28, is that what you're saying? The change will be in F28, yes.  The few files in /usr/bin

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 07:59 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > It is my understanding that currently when a file copied to any > location, a physical copy is not produced, the copy is a hardlink to the > original file, until such time as one of the "copies" is changed and > then both become physical

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-08 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/3/18 6:13 am, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... ah, so the replacement of those cross-directory hardlinks with symlinks will happen in F28, is that what you're saying? The change will be in F28, yes. The few files in /usr/bin are simply copied, not symlinked. Within /usr/

Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

2018-03-08 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ... ah, so the replacement of those cross-directory hardlinks with > symlinks will happen in F28, is that what you're saying? The change will be in F28, yes. The few files in /usr/bin are simply copied, not symlinked. Within /usr/bin, the identical files are hardlinked

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 22:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > curiously, while "dnf --help" mentions that option, it does not > appear anywhere in the man page: > > $ man dnf | grep excludepkgs > $ In reality excludepkgs is the same as exclude.   Probably "exclude" is preferred,  I just happen to remember i

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/08/18 20:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > >> On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how > >>> to do something simple -- i want to restric

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 21:26:48 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf --excludepkgs=*686 info 389-admin Thanks for that: that seems helpful, too, when dnf suggests packages different from the actual machine architecture: I was trying to install a package from the testing repo, and it su

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 21:26, Ed Greshko wrote: > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf --excludepkgs=*686 info 389-admin And if you never want to see i686 packages you can just put the needful in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf Saves typing. -- I believe all research assistants should be paid for their time. signature.asc Des

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 20:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how >>> to do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of >>> commands like "dnf search" or "

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how > > to do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of > > commands like "dnf search" or "dnf info" to just a selected set of > > archite

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/08/18 18:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how to > do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of commands like > "dnf search" or "dnf info" to just a selected set of architectures. Sure.  I'll give you a hint.  Just "exclu

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Bob Marcan
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 06:51:15 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > dnf search ftp --forcearch x86_64 I was a little too fast :-) dnf search ftp | grep x86_64 will do. Obviously dnf is not mature enough, yet. BR, Bob ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Bob Marcan wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 05:45:12 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > ideally, i'd like to restrict package arches for these queries to > > x86_64 or noarch, and "man dnf" suggests the "--arch" option, but that > > doesn't have the effect i'm after: > > >

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2018-03-08 kl. 11:45, skrev Robert P. J. Day: > > i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how to > do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of commands like > "dnf search" or "dnf info" to just a selected set of architectures. > > example: > > $ dnf search

Re: can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Bob Marcan
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 05:45:12 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > ideally, i'd like to restrict package arches for these queries to > x86_64 or noarch, and "man dnf" suggests the "--arch" option, but that > doesn't have the effect i'm after: > > $ dnf search ftp --arch x86_64 dnf search ftp --f

can i limit "dnf search/info" to a selected set of architectures?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've pawed over the man page for dnf and i can't figure out how to do something simple -- i want to restrict the output of commands like "dnf search" or "dnf info" to just a selected set of architectures. example: $ dnf search ftp ftp.x86_64 : The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) c

superfluous consultation of /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc?

2018-03-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
pedantic nitpickery ... just noticed in the man page for "rpm" the default path for configuration files: --rcfile FILELIST Replace the list of configuration files to be read. Each of the files in the colon separated FILELIST is read sequentially by rpm for configuration information. O