Bug 1496153

Summary:	Extend DNF compatibility with YUM
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniel Mach <dmach>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	27	CC:	dmach, jmracek, rpm-software-management
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Description Daniel Mach 2017-09-26 14:47:35 UTC

Existing YUM users are used to use 'yum' executable,
manage '/etc/yum.conf'
and read yum(8), yum-shell(8) and yum.conf(5) man pages.

We should provide them compat symlinks so they can find everything in usual places. Here's my brief analysis on what needs to be done:


Compat symlinks:

/etc/yum -> dnf
/etc/yum.conf -> dnf.conf
/usr/bin/yum -> dnf
/usr/share/doc/dnf -> yum
/usr/share/man/man5/yum.conf.5 -> dnf.conf.5
/usr/share/man/man8/yum-shell.8 -> dnf-shell.8
/usr/share/man/man8/yum.8 -> dnf.8


Keep as it is:

/etc/yum.repos.d


ToDo:

/etc/yum/vars


Drop:

/etc/logrotate.d/yum
(obsolete)

/etc/yum/*
(covered as part of /etc/yum -> dnf symlink)

/usr/lib/yum-plugins
(API changes -> incompatible plugins; we don't want to support this location for any longer)
 
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/yum
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/yummain.py
(bash completion replaced with DNF's)

/var/cache/yum/*
(cache, no need for a compat symlink)

/var/lib/yum/*
(data in incompatible format, we probably don't want this symlink either)

Comment 1 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-10-02 14:38:01 UTC

Do we really need /usr/share/doc/dnf -> yum ?

With /etc/yum -> dnf we have to keep in mind that some packages add protected packages configuration in "/etc/yum/protected.d/*.conf".

I also have to point out for /usr/share/man/man8/yum-shell.8 -> dnf-shell.8 that there is nothing like "dnf-shell.8*".

Comment 2 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-10-03 06:45:34 UTC

I create a patch, that provide most of requested features (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/938).

Comment 3 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-06-28 08:21:10 UTC

The issue is solved by dnf-3.0.1-1 that was released into rawhide.