I don't know where the original message came from. Don't see it in my
folder for this list....
On 02/25/2015 04:39 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
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?
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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.
Isn't this the majority of yum users?
Yes, I use yumex when I am looking for some package that meets a
particular need. But mostly I know from some source what to install,
and do via the cli. As do so many other Fedora users.
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
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