Re: dnf and deltarpm (Was: Re: Fedora rawhide compose report: 20180529.n.0 changes)

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On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:25 PM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 29 May 2018 at 15:49, Fedora Rawhide Report <rawhide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
>>
>> Package:      dnf-2.7.5-15.fc29
>> Old package:  dnf-2.7.5-12.fc29
>> Summary:      Package manager
>> RPMs:         dnf dnf-automatic dnf-data dnf-yum python2-dnf python3-dnf
>> Added RPMs:   dnf-data
>> Dropped RPMs: dnf-conf
>> Size:         1.82 MiB
>> Size change:  342.44 KiB
>> Changelog:
>>   * Fri May 25 2018 Martin Hatina <mhatina@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.7.5-13
>>   - Rebase to dnf from dnf-2-modularity-6 release.
>>
>>   * Fri May 25 2018 Martin Hatina <mhatina@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.7.5-14
>>   - Fix patch applying.
>>
>>   * Mon May 28 2018 Martin Hatina <mhatina@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.7.5.15
>>   - Do not require libdnf
>
>
> It is yet another hidden change not listed in above.
> python3-dnf subpackage started (again) require deltarp.
> Previouselly is spec was "Recommends: deltarpm" and now it is (again) "Requires: deltarpm"
> dnf maintainer(s) knows about this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1583834
> However for some reason looks like they prefers to apply kind of ostrich tactics.
>
> Because today has been published next dnf release I'm going to repeating the bugzilla ticket question about deltrpm question but this time publically.
>
> I want to believe that it was nothing more than trivial mistake because Fedora does not offer repo with delta files so fixed instead weak dependency does not make here IMO sense, and such change only pointlessly enlarges the size of the @core.
>

The DNF team mistakenly believed that DNF tolerated deltarpm not being
installed like YUM did. That's not the case, so it was reverted. They
originally tried to make it a weak dependency for RHEL, but it didn't
work out well...


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