dnf vs yum

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 4 16:32:11 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:02:23AM -0300, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>   I only recall it was supposed to exist some compatibility
> layer at some point.
>   But I keep all the time needing to
> $ sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> because I forget and use yum instead of dnf in rawhide.

I'm not sure why you would need to do that because of running yum, but, one
thing you can do is remove the yum package and install dnf-yum instead,
which provides a /usr/bin/yum compatibility wrapper.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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