On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:56 AM Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Renaming dnf to yum is IMHO the best option. > I constantly use the wrong tool when switching between Fedora and Centos, > and the painful "yum.repos.d" string issue (code + docs) would disappear. Actually, we're planning [1] to rename the "dnf-yum" subpackage to "yum" in Fedora 31, to stay more consistent with the RHEL/CentOS world. That way, once Fedora 31 is out, those who have the original "yum" installed would just seamlessly upgrade to the new major version 4 (the former "dnf-yum"). That's about as close as we can get to renaming dnf to yum in Fedora at this moment. Note that the original yum config files would not be automatically migrated or merged into their dnf counterparts (except for /etc/yum.repos.d which is used by dnf already), but that's not the goal here either, as it would be quite complex and error-prone (at a minimum, we would have to incorporate a pretrans scriptlet using Lua [2] to take care of some of the symlinks). Instead, we just want to provide a smooth upgrade path for yum in Fedora for those who happen to still be using it for one reason or another, however the actual config migration (if needed) would have to be done manually by each user. IOW, the plan is that the "yum" package will continue to live on both distros, although the compatibility level of this package will differ between the two; on Fedora, it will only ship the /usr/bin/yum symlink and the yum(8) man page, just like the former "dnf-yum". The whole situation may seem complicated right now, but using the same package name for the yum compatibility layer on both Fedora and RHEL/CentOS should simplify things a little bit. [1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1337 [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Directory_Replacement/ -- Michal Domonkos Software Engineer, DNF stack Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
