On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Ben Cotton bcotton@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:02 AM Daniel Mach dmach@redhat.com wrote:
If a user migrates from RHEL 7 to the next version of RHEL (or CentOS), there will be continuity in used algorithm and history db checksums. It's important to some enterprise customers to keep the history db in a
good shape.
Fedora users don't care about that much in general.
This makes sense. Let me ask from another angle: does Fedora lose anything from not using the current dnf history algorithm (apart from the discontinuity when we switch)? Would it make sense to have that be a configurable option where Fedora defaults to the dnf model and RHEL defaults to the yum model or is it essentially a cosmetic difference?
To me, it's more a cosmetic difference and I don't think it deserves a configurable option for switching the behavior. It is more important to unify the behavior, document it and cover with tests.