----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Ruckman" <roshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 11:29:28 AM > Subject: dnf migration period > > Greetings fellow cloudies! > > This bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201655) spawned a > conversation on IRC that we thought should be moved here to the list. > > With the migration from yum to dnf in full swing, we've got to figure > out what the intent translates to regarding packages installed on the > cloud image. Currently, yum is not installed on the cloud images, only > dnf. Judging by this discussion during a fesco meeting [0], this is > known and expected. > > The other flavors (Workstation and Server) both have yum installed upon > fresh installation. libreport pulls yum in as a dep - so yum is only > there until libreport gets migrated. The question for us is, do we want > a migration period for cloud users to have time to migrate their tools > to dnf? I think from a mere usability standpoint, it makes sense to have > yum and dnf installed alongside each other so things don't break; but I > can see both sides of the argument. > > More information on the history of this discussion can be found in the > meeting log [0], and this fesco ticket [1]. > > Thoughts? > > [0] > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2015-02-25-18.01.log.html > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1312 > > -- > // Mike > -- > Fedora QA > freenode: roshi > http://roshi.fedorapeople.org > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > I don't see a problem with keeping both installed alongside each other for now, as long as people are aware that they *need* to migrate to dnf. We don't want a Python 2 -> 3 "migration period". :P -- David _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
