dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

[Parag Nemade]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jiří Konečný <jkonecny at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 13:40 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> There's some confusion around this, so I thought I would post to try
>> and clear up things. In the event I am wrong on any of the below, please
>> do feel free to correct me. ;)
>>
>> In the past the proposal was to have a yum-dnf package that provided
>> /usr/bin/yum, called dnf and conflicted with the yum package. I was
>> against that plan, but I think the one we settled on is worth doing.
>> It's somewhat of a middle ground between "yum is gone right now,
>> deal with it" and "you can keep using yum forever".
>>
>> For f22 (and rawhide):
>>
>> * dnf is installed by default. By that I mean it is in the 'core' group
>>   in comps.
>>
>> * dnf-yum is installed by default. By that I mean it is in the 'core'
>>   group in comps next to dnf.
>>
>> * yum is installed if something that depends on yum pulls it in or say
>>   a user installs it manually.
>>
>> * yum requires dnf-yum. So, if you install yum manually you will also
>>   pull in dnf-yum (and the dnf plugin that handles history migrate).
>>
>> * When you run 'yum' you get:
>>
>> % sudo yum list foobar
>> Yum command has been deprecated, use dnf instead.
>> See 'man dnf' and 'man yum2dnf' for more information.
>> To transfer transaction metadata from yum to DNF, run 'dnf migrate'
>> Redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf list foobar'
>>
>> ...then the ouput from dnf list foobar...
>>
>> * If you wish to still use yum, the yum package provides now
>>   a /usr/bin/yum-deprecated command that is the old yum
>>   command renamed. It also has the notice message as above
>>   on it.
>>
>> * If you are using the yum python bindings directly, that will continue
>>    to work if you have the yum package installed.
>>
>> Note that this landed before Beta freeze, but there were some issues
>> with the initial package doing this. There is an update available:
>>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.4.3-505.fc22
>>
>> I think this helps those users who read any of the docs out there
>> that say to 'yum install foo' at the cost of those people who need
>> some specific command line behavior from yum. The second group
>> is much better positioned to use yum-deprecated or know whats
>> going on than the first group.
>>
>> kevin
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>
> Hi,
>
> I want to ask on something not exactly to topic, but it's side of it. I
> have a problem find command in dnf which is in yum.
>
> When I'm using this command I get information which package contains
> this library.
> $ yum provides *libnetapi.so
>
> but when I'm using dnf command
> $ dnf repoquery --provides *libnetapi.so
>
>
> Is there a way to find libraries and other files in dnf?

You can use
$ dnf provides *libnetapi.so

Regards,
Parag.