On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:45 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:

> On 06/27/2018 03:18 AM, Lubomír Sedlář wrote:
> > Removing Yyum would mean that there will no longer be /usr/bin/pungi
> > available in Fedora. This is not a problem for any work done by release
> > engineering, but it is still used by people creating spins.
> >
> > So this is a call to action: if anyone wants to continue using it, now
> > is the time to come up and port it to DNF (and Python 3).
>
> Sorry for my delay in replying here... been busy. ;(
>
> Looking at the list of things that would go away (from the wiki page):
>
>     cobbler
>     ddiskit
>     diskimage-builder
>     dlrn
>     dnf-plugins-core
>
> ? dnf-plugins-core is kind of important, is this a false positive?
> Or does it mean python2-dnf-plugin*?
>
Yes, it's python2-dnf-plugin-migrate.
The list I provided contains packages from koji/dist-git/bugzilla
perspective (srpm names).

>
>     fusioninventory-agent
>     grinder
>     imgbased
>     kiwi
>     koji
>
> koji is kinda important. I think this is meaning python2-koji?
> I would hope python3-koji/koji stays around?
>
ditto

>
>     koji-containerbuild
>
> We like containers these days, don't we?
>
>     libtaskotron
>
> And testing?
>
>     lpf
>     mach
>     mash
>     mirrormanager
>
> And mirrors (this one isn't as important as we run mirrormanager on
> rhel, but still)
>
>     nagios-plugins-check-updates
>     osc
>     perl-Fedora-Rebuild
>     plague
>     pulp-rpm
>     repo_manager
>     repoview
>     retrace-server
>
> This also runs on rhel, but sooner or later will need porting.
>
>     rpm-ostree-toolbox
>     sigul
>
> This is kinda important.
>
>     snake
>     system-config-kickstart
>     yum-axelget
>     yum-rhn-plugin
>     yum-updatesd
>
> So, I'm personally not too keen on this at this point. I suppose if it
> happens then we will need to maintain/keep a fork of yum3 in
> infrastructure for tools, at which point it might be best to just keep
> it in the distro.
>
> I don't know the porting plans for all the above stuff, but I would
> personally really prefer retiring only after they were ported or at
> least we know there's a plan for them.
>
> If the critical packages don't get ported in time, we can postpone
removing yum to the next release.
I think the hard deadline is when Python 2 gets removed from the distro
(depending on Python 2 indicates
that some packages are not Python 3 ready yet).


> kevin
>
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