[Pkg-rpm-devel] [ionic at ionic.de: Finished DNF packages for Debian Unstable]

[Thomas Goirand]

On 02/06/2018 04:10 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mihai has created Deb packaging of dnf (the next-generation yum). This
> is generally as far as he would like to take it. I'm generally
> interested in having fnd in Debian but it was low on my list so I didn't
> get to it so far.
> 
> I have not yet reviewed those, and wanted to review them before I post
> an ITP.
> 
> I'm generally interested in having dnf packaged and would probably be
> interested in maintaining / co-maintaining / whatever. Are you interested
> as well?

Hi.

Can we bootstrap a CentOS system with dnf, the way we can do it with
yum? If so, then it is important to have it in Debian.

I'm afraid I wont have enough time for it, however, there's a PKG-RPM
group in Alioth, setup with a mailing list and all. Maybe it'd be best
to post there. I've CC-ed the list. Hopefully, someone will reply to
your message and offer help / package review / upload sponsoring.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> -----
> 
> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:53:43 +0100
> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at debian.org>
> Subject: Finished DNF packages for Debian Unstable
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0
> 
> Hi Tzafrir
> 
> 
> As previously noted, my DNF packaging for Debian is finally finished. It took me
> a while to iron out problems due to the "special" rpm version that Debian ships,
> but it can now be used as a drop-in replacement for yum with mock and,
> incidentally, this fixes chroot creation failures for newer Fedora versions.
> 
> Both source and amd64 binary packages can be found here:
> https://packages.x2go.org/debian-contrib/
> 
> 
> I'd appreciate you reviewing the source packages, though I hope there's nothing
> wrong in the packaging. Naturally I have tested this with mock on Debian
> Unstable (and it also works if built against Debian Stretch, although THAT
> requires another rebuild of rpm from unstable against Debian Stretch.)
> 
> For testing and building the packages, you will either have to wait until
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889509 has landed in unstable
> or pull the patch from there and rebuild a new libsolv version.
> 
> 
> Going forward, at least after #889509 is resolved, I'd like to see these
> packages in Debian Unstable and afterwards migrated through the general
> transition path to Testing. The only caveat is that I do not wish to maintain
> them - would you be willing to upload them and take over maintainership? (For
> these reasons, an ITP or RFS would not be appropriate.)
> 
> 
> Alternative, I could ask Thomas Goirand, the maintainer of yum, whether he'd be
> willing to take over.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> Mihai
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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