> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> > There's some confusion around this, so I thought I would post to try > and clear up things. In the event I am wrong on any of the below, please > do feel free to correct me. ;) > > In the past the proposal was to have a yum-dnf package that provided > /usr/bin/yum, called dnf and conflicted with the yum package. I was > against that plan, but I think the one we settled on is worth doing. > It's somewhat of a middle ground between "yum is gone right now, > deal with it" and "you can keep using yum forever". > > For f22 (and rawhide): > > * dnf is installed by default. By that I mean it is in the 'core' group > in comps. > > * dnf-yum is installed by default. By that I mean it is in the 'core' > group in comps next to dnf. > > * yum is installed if something that depends on yum pulls it in or say > a user installs it manually. > > * yum requires dnf-yum. So, if you install yum manually you will also > pull in dnf-yum (and the dnf plugin that handles history migrate). > > * When you run 'yum' you get: > > % sudo yum list foobar > Yum command has been deprecated, use dnf instead. > See 'man dnf' and 'man yum2dnf' for more information. > To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run 'dnf migrate' > Redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf list foobar' > > ...then the ouput from dnf list foobar... > > * If you wish to still use yum, the yum package provides now > a /usr/bin/yum-deprecated command that is the old yum > command renamed. It also has the notice message as above > on it. > > * If you are using the yum python bindings directly, that will continue > to work if you have the yum package installed. > > Note that this landed before Beta freeze, but there were some issues > with the initial package doing this. There is an update available: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.4.3-505.fc22 > > I think this helps those users who read any of the docs out there > that say to 'yum install foo' at the cost of those people who need > some specific command line behavior from yum. The second group > is much better positioned to use yum-deprecated or know whats > going on than the first group. Exactly, thanks for writing this, Kevin. All man pages / warnings were updated according to these changes so there should be no harm / confusion during yum to DNF transition. BTW new migration plugin [1] was created to import transactions, installed packages and group metadata from yum to DNF. [1] http://dnf-plugins-extras.readthedocs.org/en/latest/migrate.html DNF team -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
