DNF replacing yum: fedup?

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 27 07:57:36 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 08:44 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 01/26/2015 10:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Has this been considered yet? Should porting fedup to dnf be in 
> > the scope of this Change? Does that affect its practicability for 
> > F22?
> 
> I was thinking about this in past beacuse I maintain fedora-
> upgrade(8).
> 
> If DNF is default for F22, then IMO all upgrade tools should start 
> migrating to DNF after F22 release. Not sooner!
> I.e. upgrade from F21 to F22 should be done using yum. Because the 
> upgrade is run on code-base of F21.
> And DNF should be used for the first time for upgrade from F22 to 
> F23.

Sure...and that means the upgrade tools included in F22 should be DNF-
based. Because they'll be the ones used to upgrade to F23.

We already shipped the upgrade tools in F21.
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