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On 12 August 2016 at 12:09, Clay Gerrard <clay.gerrard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/12/2016 08:37 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote:
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>> > ... but ... it doesn't have a --install option?  Do you know if that is
>> > strictly out-of-scope or roadmap or ... ?
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>> Right now we don't need it - we take the output and pipe that to yum/apt
>> etc...
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>> See
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>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/jenkins/scripts/install-distro-packages.sh
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> the -b option is great - thanks for the pointer!
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>   -b, --brief           List only missing packages one per line.
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> It should have been more obvious to me that it meant "you should totally use
> this as input into your package manager"!
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> But, to be clear, when you say "we don't need it" - you *mean" - "yeah, we
> totally need it and added it as bash in a different project"?  ;)
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> but also *not* strictly out-of-scope?  Or not sure?  Or patches welcome and
> we'll see!?  Or .. we can *both* continue to use our existing tools to solve
> this problem in the same way we always have?  :P

When I designed it it seemed more important to get a clear list than
to be able to drive package managers - it just limited the degree of
integration needed; that said I see no reason it can't be added if
folk find it useful - as long as we still keep the clean query UI :)

-Rob