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From: "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid(a)gmail.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
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Sent: Monday, October 6, 2014 10:00:54 AM
Subject: Re: dnf vs yum
Hi
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
Too bad that it does not also say that it provides yum ;(
09:52 root@pinkiepie-rawhide:mnt$ dnf install dnf-yum mock
Error: package mock-1.1.41-3.fc22.noarch requires yum >= 2.4, but none
of the providers can be installed
Because it doesn't provide yum. It only provides a command line api. Tools
that depend on the yum API including mock won't work with dnf-yum. They
actually need to be ported over just like yumex-dnf has.
Mock-1.2 no longer depends on yum API and has been ported to use DNF.
So if you use the new version and set
config_opts['package_manager']='dnf'
and also install dnf-plugins-core, you should be able to use it without any problems.
But the dnf-yum (/usr/bin/yum being symlink to dnf) scenario is not supported yet,
you have to explicitly tell it to use dnf, otherwise it won't work.
dnf and yum don't always behave the same and mock has to treat them a bit
differently. But the package itself still needs to depend on yum, because even
if dnf-yum was supported, it doesn't pull in dnf-plugins-core package which
contains builddep command.
Michael Simacek