On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 05:38:03PM -0700, Mike Ruckman wrote: > Greetings Testers! > > With the F22 switch from yum to dnf as a package manager, there was a need to > figure out what the scope would be for QA testing. Naturally, to define the > scope for a subset, I had to figure out (at least in a general sense) how > large the complete set is. There's a multitude of complication vectors with a > switch like this - especially since dnf is specifically designed to not be a > drop in replacement for yum. > > First question: Who/what all uses yum? > -------------------------------------- > > Swapping out yum is the equivalent of someone coming up with a new form of > hemoglobin, then trying to figure out what all could go wrong when you make > the swap (tl;dr: Everything). The first to come to mind is anyone who installs > packages from the CLI. But then you have all the GUI front-ends (PackageKit > and Apper) and all the build tools - not to mention the installer. > > Some places yum touches: > - Oz/ImageFactory (Building Cloud images) > - koji (RPM-based build system) > - pungi (Build installation trees and isos) > - ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) > - Anaconda (Fedora installer) > - liveimage-creator (tool for creating live images) > - cloud-init (tool for configuring freshly launched cloud images) > - FedUp (tool for updating Fedora between releases) > - Software Center and Apper (Default software installers) > - rolekit (tool to easily deploy roles to a Server installation) > - virt-builder and friends (tools for manipulating virtualized environments) There is also lorax (used to create boot.iso). For F22 lorax will continue to use yum. But there is a f22-dnf-branch you can test with if you want. https://github.com/rhinstaller/lorax/tree/f22-dnf-branch For F23 lorax is already using DNF with lorax-23.1 -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
