On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:37 PM Terry Bowling <tbowl...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Regarding these two questions: > >>> Are there any concerns about such change? >>> I believe that >90% users wouldn't notice anything as it's related to the >>> history database only. > > >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:01 AM Igor Gnatenko >> <ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> Since we've changed the database entirely, what's the point of keeping same >> algorithm for calculating checksum? > > >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:34 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> >> wrote: >> What's the benefit in changing to be compatible with YUM as opposed >> to stickin with current alogorithm ? >> >> Surely if we don't change it, even fewer users will notice that DNF's >> behaviour is different from YUM's, since DNF has been the default for >> many releases now. >> >> I could understand the motiviation to stay compatible with YUM if we >> were only just about to switch Fedora from YUM to DNF, but time is >> way in the past now. Shouldn't we optimize for the fact that DNF is >> the more widely deployed & used tool, and thus not worry about >> YUM compatibility in respect of the history DB ? > > > It is true that going forward in the Fedora world it matters less. It is > more of an impact for yum-3 compatibility as yum4/dnf is being considered in > the RHEL7/CentOS7 userspace environments as described at > https://blog.centos.org/2018/04/yum4-dnf-for-centos-7-updates/ > > Currently yum version 3 and what the proof-of-concept project is calling yum4 > work very well together side by side. Users can safely switch back and > forth. The major problem is yum/dnf histories being different and the rpmdb > checksum difference is a blocker for resolving the history compatibility. > > So think of this as an effort to bring package management parity between > Fedora, RHEL 7, & CentOS7, as the latter two still have a long life ahead of > them. >
Is there a reason why we can't change YUM to match the DNF behavior? IMO, the YUM behavior is nonsense and isn't even a valid package identifier. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SU43ILZ3GELAKUWQSM2345LK7PEKCQFE/
