dnf vs yum

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 08:00:54 UTC 2014


Hi

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz  wrote:

> Too bad that it does not also say that it provides yum ;(
>
> 09:52 root at pinkiepie-rawhide:mnt$ dnf install dnf-yum mock
> Error: package mock-1.1.41-3.fc22.noarch requires yum >= 2.4, but none
> of the providers can be installed
>

Because it doesn't provide yum.  It only provides a command line api.
Tools that depend on the yum API including mock won't work with dnf-yum.
They actually need to be ported over just like yumex-dnf has.

Rahul
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