Re: RFC: retiring yum

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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Igor Gnatenko
<ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> So I think F28/F29 would be best time for retiring YUM. Right now DNF
> should be already stable and provide same capabilities (or documented
> that something will not be supported).
>
> Hopefully infrastructure / rel-eng folks will finally add support for
> rich dependencies[0] which would mean that yum will not work in Fedora
> anyway, so..
>
> Do you still have some critical missing functionality in DNF? And let
> us know reasons why would you like to keep YUM available (hopefully
> there are no)!
>

There is still one thing I've noticed we're missing: API and CLI for
getting package changelogs[1]. This exists in yum but doesn't in dnf.

In addition, don't we still need yum in the repositories for mock to
target EL6 and EL7 for EPEL?


[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066867 (CLI RFEs are
blocked by this bug)



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