dnf and "RPMDB altered outside of yum"

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 13:30:21 UTC 2015


Hi

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:51 AM, R Mercado wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I installed dnf on my desktop (Fedora 21) a few days ago and haven't
> removed yum.
>
> Today I run yum as I had forgotten about dnf and got the warning "RPMDB
> altered outside of yum".
>
> Is the use of dnf a valid explanation of the warning I got?
>


Yes


>
> Is there advice as to whether to remove "yum" or alias yum to point to
> dnf?
>

You can remove yum and install dnf-yum package which provides an alias but
I wouldn't really recommend that for Fedora 21 yet

Rahul
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