Hey all, In light of the Fedora 30 change to retire YUM[1] and the fact that DNF is now present in RHEL/CentOS 7 (as well as Fedora, openSUSE Leap 15, Mageia, etc.), I think we should port the last remaining things server side that have hard dependencies on YUM to use DNF.
I did a quick grep through the codebase, and I only identified two files that trigger a hard dependency on YUM: * utils/depsolver.py * backend/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/yum_src.py Porting these to DNF should completely eliminate the hard dependency on YUM as well as the remaining blockers to keeping the Spacewalk server Python 2 only, which is important since Python 2 stuff is being removed in Fedora 30, too[2]. Now, I've done a few ports of things from YUM to DNF before, so I'm willing to help with this porting effort. I just want to make sure that this is something you'd be willing to accept. I don't know if you guys are still supporting RHEL/CentOS 6 based Spacewalk servers, but EL6's EOL is next year anyway, and push comes to shove, we can keep a copy of the old file and have the package install the YUM version of the code only on EL6 builds. So, what do you all think? Best regards, Neal [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Retire_YUM_3 [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
