DNF as default package manager

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 12:30:40 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> But I'm really interested in state of DNF as default too. Should I switch mock to use DNF as default?
>>>>>> For me there is still lot of unfinished tasks. E.g. documenting what --installroot should actually do [BZ 1163028]
>>>>> I don't think it's ready, it might be useful to have an option to
>>>>> switch it over for local use to enable easier wider testing but I
>>>>> certainly don't think it's ready to be default for mock yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
>>>> I am using mock for Fedora development with DNF enabled by default and
>>>> it works just fine. May be you want to share what is troubling you?
>>> There is a difference between « it works just fine for me » and « it
>>> works to build the distro »
>>>
>>> The latter needs much more testing and guarantees than the former,
>>> although the former is certainly encouraging.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If somebody says "I certainly don't think it's ready to be default for
>> mock yet.", I expect him to have strong evidence that something is
>> wrong, not that something needs more testing.
>
> If somebody says that it's ready to go I would expect them to have
> used mock to rebuild the entire distribution and prove that it works,
> preferably twice actually once as an initial run from the original yum
> builds [... ]

Yes because everyone has the resources and equipment to do that .. oh wait.


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