DNF as default package manager

[Vít Ondruch]

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Dne 21.1.2015 v 17:12 Dennis Gilmore napsal(a):
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:13:24 +0100
> Mathieu Bridon <bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 11:02 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> >> Dne 21.1.2015 v 10:35 Peter Robinson napsal(a):
> >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Miroslav Suchý
> >>> <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 01/21/2015 09:33 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> >>>>> It is surprising to see so many packges depending on yum. Yes,
> >>>>> there is stuff like rpm-build and mock,
> >>>> And mock can live without yum. If we only had weak deps allowed
> >>>> in Fedora mock.spec would have Recommends: yum
> >>>>
> >>>> But I'm really interested in state of DNF as default too. Should
> >>>> I switch mock to use DNF as default? For me there is still lot
> >>>> of unfinished tasks. E.g. documenting what --installroot should
> >>>> actually do [BZ 1163028]
> >>> I don't think it's ready, it might be useful to have an option to
> >>> switch it over for local use to enable easier wider testing but I
> >>> certainly don't think it's ready to be default for mock yet.
> >>>
> >>> Peter
> >>
> >> I am using mock for Fedora development with DNF enabled by default
> >> and it works just fine. May be you want to share what is troubling
> >> you?
>
> > There is a difference between « it works just fine for me » and « it
> > works to build the distro »
>
> and for it works to build the distro it has to work on releases all the
> way back to rhel 5 as we build epel for rhel5 still and need to make
> rhel5 chroots. I have not heard of anybody testing that at all yet.

Actually, the mock configuration might be different for different releases:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/buildsys/2014-December/004444.html

So RHEL5 argument is moot.


Vít
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