dnf migration period

[David Gay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Ruckman" <roshi at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 11:29:28 AM
> Subject: dnf migration period
> 
> Greetings fellow cloudies!
> 
> This bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201655) spawned a
> conversation on IRC that we thought should be moved here to the list.
> 
> With the migration from yum to dnf in full swing, we've got to figure
> out what the intent translates to regarding packages installed on the
> cloud image. Currently, yum is not installed on the cloud images, only
> dnf. Judging by this discussion during a fesco meeting [0], this is
> known and expected.
> 
> The other flavors (Workstation and Server) both have yum installed upon
> fresh installation. libreport pulls yum in as a dep - so yum is only
> there until libreport gets migrated. The question for us is, do we want
> a migration period for cloud users to have time to migrate their tools
> to dnf? I think from a mere usability standpoint, it makes sense to have
> yum and dnf installed alongside each other so things don't break; but I
> can see both sides of the argument.
> 
> More information on the history of this discussion can be found in the
> meeting log [0], and this fesco ticket [1].
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> [0]
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/fesco/fesco.2015-02-25-18.01.log.html
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1312
> 
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I don't see a problem with keeping both installed alongside each other for now, as long as people are aware that they *need* to migrate to dnf. We don't want a Python 2 -> 3 "migration period". :P

-- David