I saw mention of dnf in a blog article about installing a package on CentOS. Further investigation revealed that Fedora is replacing yum with dnf, apparently a new and better yum. But it wasn't clear if dnf was a drop-in replacement or if some migration setup was required. Is it supposed to work with CentOS or do we ignore it until some future release?
https://www.linux.com/learn/what-you-need-know-about-fedoras-switch-yum-dnf
I installed dnf with yum and tried installing another package with it and it complains:
[root@orifice ~]# dnf install certbot Failed to open: /var/cache/dnf/x86_64/7/x86_64/7/epel/repodata/b3221500eaedf45b7ec0737a410cde7e3f09b49070c729449938b961ccbdf397-updateinfo.xml.bz2.
I don't install new packages often, but it does sound like dnf's new dep solver is a Good Thing when that's needed.
On 05/25/2016 12:38 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
But it wasn't clear if dnf was a drop-in replacement or if some migration setup was required.
For users, it's a drop-in replacement. If you write extensions, some migration is required, because the API has been cleaned up.
Is it supposed to work with CentOS or do we ignore it until some future release?
Users can safely ignore it until a future release.
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