Bug 1425446

Summary:	RFE: allow using "guest's" dnf for --installroot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Component:	mock	Assignee:	Clark Williams <williams>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ignatenko, jdisnard, mebrown, msimacek, msuchy, praiskup, williams
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Description Pavel Raiskup 2017-02-21 12:53:12 UTC

The thing is that dnf on host might be old enough (or there might be no
dnf at all, e.g. rhel7 box).

It might be useful, for e.g. fedora-rawhide-x86_64, to:
- install "only" dnf (or dnf-minimal) into separate chroot, say
  fedora-rawhide-DNF-x86_64
- run dnf from fedora-rawhide-DNF-x86_64 (and all the related tooling like
  rpm and libsolv) to --installroot regular fedora-rawhide-x86_64 chroot

This is rather a wild idea, dnf is proven to have released bugs (especially
in Rawhide) so I guess installing Fedora Rawhide by Rawhide's dnf might
rather cause more issues than installing the Rawhide by yum.  But what
about to consider this as "optional" feature?  Would that make sense?

Idea by Igor, just filing a bug report to not forget to discuss this.

Comment 1 Miroslav Suchý 2017-02-21 15:32:25 UTC

Duplicate of 1118719. And this has been suggested in #9 there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1118719 ***