On 15. 12. 2014 at 13:03:54, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Ranjan Maitra > > <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Because (from what I understood, perhaps incorrectly) yum is going away in > > favor dnf, I was trying to get used to the latter. Because the former is > > so ingrained in me, I was trying to get rid of it from the system so that > > not having it available would force me to think and thus get used to dnf. > > > > So I try: > > > > dnf erase yum > > I suggest being really skeptical of dnf erase suggestions. It can be > brutal (don't try dnf erase kernel for example, it'll remove all > kernels including the running one). This is not true, the issue was fixed quite some time ago: [root@boson ~]# dnf erase kernel Dependencies resolved. Error: The operation would result in removing the booted kernel: kernel-3.17.4-200.fc20.x86_64. > I also suggest being prepared to > file a bug in which case you need to use --debugsolver, e.g. > dnf --debugsolver upgrade > dnf --debugsolver erase blah > > And then tar the resulting debug folder in the current directory and > attach to the bug. It's close to 100% chance you'll be asked for it so > you might as well just provide it from the start. This is definitely a good advice. Even though most of these issues are caused by poor packaging of various Fedora rpms, it helps a lot to know what exactly happened. See this page for more information on how to report a bug so it's as helpful and descriptive as possible: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/wiki/Bug-Reporting Thanks Jan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
