Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 06/16/14 00:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 06/09/2014 06:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote:
>>>> till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills.
>>>> IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum.
>>> Yes, that's the plan. There are some differences but they are all well
>>> documented.
>> Is the plan to actually rename dnf to yum at that point? If it is truly a
>> drop-in replacement, that seems like the less disruptive approach for users
>> (and scripts) everywhere.
>>
>> Additionally, in remembrance of Seth Vidal, I would hate to see Fedora lose
>> 'yum'. Even if Seth would probably find that silly, it's important to me.
>>
> +1
>
> Let us keep at least the name, if not the code. I have been a happy user
> of yum, and have observed it to be innovative enough.
>
> By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O
>


[root at box10 bobg]# dnf update
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.

and then:

[root at box10 bobg]# yum  update
Loaded plugins: ...  snip   ,,,

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================================
  Package                              Arch Version 
Repository                Size
=============================================================================================================================================
Updating:
  NetworkManager                       x86_64 
1:0.9.9.0-39.git20131003.fc20 updates                  1.2 M
  NetworkManager-glib                  x86_64 
1:0.9.9.0-39.git20131003.fc20 updates                  348 k
  ghostscript                          x86_64 9.14-3.fc20 
updates                  4.4 M
  gnome-abrt                           x86_64 0.3.7-1.fc20 
updates                  213 k
  qt                                   x86_64 1:4.8.6-9.fc20 
updates                  4.7 M
  qt-x11                               x86_64 1:4.8.6-9.fc20 
updates                   13 M
  thunderbird                          x86_64 24.6.0-1.fc20 
updates                   45 M
  yumex                                noarch 3.0.15-1.fc20 
updates                  431 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================
Upgrade  8 Packages

Total download size: 68 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y

So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here,

Bob

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