dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Tue Apr 7 15:07:08 UTC 2015


On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:38:57 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:22:25 -0300,
>   Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
> <paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  I had also switched back to yum in rawhide due to --skip-broken,
> > and
> >in a few updates not even needing it (I would first see what is
> >broken, and if not something "vital", use --skip-broken), while dnf
> >would just fail with cryptic messages. I can keep up if kde or gnome
> >is broken, or some other stuff that does not prevent boot and a
> >functional system.
> 
> dnf really does need --skip-broken like support if it is to replace
> yum. yum can be a lot faster than the needed work around to get dnf
> to work equivalently. I am considering going back to yum in rawhide
> rather than continuig to test dnf in rawhide because of this issue.

dnf's default behavior is like yum with --skip-broken already. 

If thats not working and you need to find out more, add '--best' to see
things without 'skip-broken'. 

If that still doesn't work, please file a bug. ;) 

kevin
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