F18 DNF and history

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Jun 19 17:51:38 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:33 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 02:44 PM, MichaƂ Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about DNF https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF
> >
> > Are there any plans to replace yum with dnf in the future?
> >
> > According to what is written here
> > https://github.com/akozumpl/dnf/wiki/Features-Considered-for-Dropping
> > history function will likely be dropped.
> >
> >  From my POV history feature is very useful. Is there a plan to provide
> > history function in Fedora dnf if yum gets dropped?
> >
> 
> Hi Michal,
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out. I considered history a candidate for 
> dropping because I didn't realize people had usecases for it. It is not 
> present in the early versions of DNF but I will make sure to put it back 
> in later.

Just to add my voice to the choir, I use it extensively and I suspect
many others in QA group too. It's extremely useful when trying to
determine exactly what update caused a given problem.
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