Am 02.01.2014 21:21, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Reindl Haraldwrote: > the bahvior is obviously not (or *not yet*) identical and the viewpoint > what are not often used bordercases may vary and depend on the environment > as i pointed out "yum -y remove kernel" is a regular task here after machines > are running long enough with the last recent one as cleanup > > I agree with that and the kernel removal behavior isn't the only difference. I mean, how often would one run dnf > remove glibc on purpose and the significant amount of accidental runs of yum that caused serious problems resulted > in yum developers adding some protection against removing key packages. dnf changing this expected behavior is > problem and clearly this is a design decision which I think needs to revisited. > > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#protected-packages-is-ignored thank you! that and the plugins / utilities below should be taken care of and than IMHO DNF will be a *painless* drop-in replacement, working that way and after it has that state it could be really replace yum including respect the existing configuration of /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/ with excludes, includes yum-utils yum-plugin-security yum-plugin-tsflags yum-plugin-protectbase yum-presto one example of a production machine which pulls it's updates from cache-repos only so no deltarpm and no manuals on all servers needed, that's why the cache-repo is filled with the script below for several resons * only one machine producing traffic on the mirrors * 100% identical packages while otherwise one may hit a newer mirror * the buildserver has for most packages sample-configs and autotests * so while reduce WAN-traffic dramatically there are only tested packages inside the whole network that's some of the "small" things one needs to take care in production and only the renaming of /var/cache/yum to /var/cache/dnf may produce side-effects even with otherwise identical behavior _______________________________________________ [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum installonly_limit=2 metadata_expire=60m clean_requirements_on_remove=1 tsflags=nodocs deltarpm=0 [root@buildserver:~]$ cat /buildserver/repo-cache.sh #!/usr/bin/bash basearch=`uname -i` releasever=`rpm -q --qf "%{version}\n" fedora-release` for g in `ls -1b /var/cache/yum` do if [ -d /var/cache/yum/$g/packages ] then echo "/var/cache/yum/$g/packages/ > /repo/cache/fc$releasever/" sudo mv --verbose /var/cache/yum/$g/packages/*.rpm /repo/cache/fc$releasever/ 2> /dev/null fi done /buildserver/repo-create.sh
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