Dne 2.9.2017 v 16:00 Neal Gompa napsal(a): > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Igor Gnatenko > <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> 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 one other feature I just recalled: arbitrary yum vars for > substitution. DNF only supports substituting releasever and basearch, > while yum allowed for you to define custom variables in /etc/yum/vars. > Scientific Linux and a few other distributions depend on it, and there > are people who use it in local installations for offering things like > login credentials, applicaton tokens, and things like that for secure > repository access. > > Interesting. I already requested something like this previously [1], but had not good enough use case for it ... May be you want to recycle my ticket? Vít [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211253 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
