QA:Testcase DNF 3.5.1

Description

DNF-3.5/3.6 is the next upcoming version of DNF package manager. Unfortunately, it brings some incompatibilities with the previous version of DNF (DNF-1/2) which were either needed to improve compatibility with the old yum interface or where bigger redesigns were needed. This test case isn't a precise step-by-step, but rather suggests several different avenues for testing basic commands, plugins and third party software.

Setup

If you are testing from a system you use for other purposes (which we don't usually recommend), BACK UP your important data. Every system change is potentially risky, be prepared.

• Optionally, install a current DNF 3.6.1 snapshot from this COPR repo - testing with both the current officially packaged DNF 3.5 and a more recent snapshot is useful:
  • dnf copr enable rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf-nightly
  • dnf update dnf
• testing scenarios:
  • Modularity support
  • anaconda installation
  • upgrade from previous Fedora version
  • core functionality: install, upgrade, remove, repoquery
  • dnf-plugins: copr, system-upgrade, download
  • third party software: mock, yumex

How to test

• Install updates from enabled repos: sudo dnf update
• Install, update and remove packages:

sudo dnf (install|update|remove) packagename

• A list of all commands is available here
• Testing yum2dnf compatibility:
  • Run any use case you can think of using yum: yum [option] foo

Expected Results

• If updating to a snapshot from the COPR repo, the repo should enable and the update install successfully
• dnf update should update the system successfully
• Commands listed at [1] should work fine
• DNF 3.5/3.6 should be able to handle yum operations