> So, coming back to the steps needed for this to happen as discussed in the > FESCo ticket, I > think the first one is to decide how users can start testing dnf5 on > "expendable" machines. > > The proposal says that dnf5 can be installed in parallel with dnf. I think > this > doesn't highlight what things will be broken, as tools will still use dnf. > Also, > @zbysek asked in the FESCo ticket what data from the RPM database is shared > between the > two, but didn't receive a reply: say, as a user, I install dnf5 in parallel > with dnf, > will I be able to "dnf install foo" and then "dnf5 uninstall foo"?
Thank you for pointing it out. I will provide additional information in both Fedora proposals (replacement of DNF https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceDnfWithDnf5#Scope and microdnf https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/MajorUpgradeOfMicrodnf#Scope). Using DNF and DNF5 in parallel to manage your system is safe. Both packagers will see content modification correctly, but they will not have not additional information to performed transaction. The situation will be the sile like when you do operation using RPM directly. > > For those two things I wrote above, if in the end dnf5 will be renamed back > as dnf to be a > drop in replacement, wouldn't be better to have dnf5 obsolete dnf starting > from now? I > don't think anyone is going to test it on a production machine anyway... > > Mattia There is no plan to rename DNF5 to DNF. Our team already shipped YUM as DNF and we discovered that it is not good idea. DNF5 upstream is not going to repeat the same mistake. Jaroslav _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
