Neal Gompa: > 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.
Hello, > 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 also * utils/cloneByDate.py but it isn't a big deal. > 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. Yes, we will gladly accept patches for dnf and python3 support. I'm just afraid there's way more than that - all the subtle differences with print, exceptions, lists vs. iterators, bytes vs. strings vs. unicode, etc. > 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. We still need to support RHEL6 - this is what makes difference between an OSS project and an enterprise product ;). > 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! Unless there is more than one... Regards, -- Michael Mráka System Management Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
