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Change Proposal Name
Summary
Dnf team wants to change a default setting for the repo option skip_if_unavailable to FALSE.
Owner
- Name: Jaroslav Mracek
- Email: jmracek@redhat.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 31
- Last updated: 2019-04-18
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
Dnf team wants to change a default setting for the repo option skip_if_unavailable to FALSE. The option is responsible for behavior when metadata of a repository is unavailable. When it is set to false, it will stop on the first unavailable repository with raising an error. The default behavior could be overwritten by a configuration of each repository or in dnf by configuration in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.
The behavior is not new, because it was used already by YUM, and the behavior is really essential because all Fedora ropos are already shipped with skip_if_unavailable=FALSE.
The change will be applied in libdnf library, and the changed behavior will be visible for all direct and indirect users of the library: dnf, microdnf, PackageKit, ... .
Benefit to Fedora
It should provide a better security because some Important updates from third-party repositories could be present in temporary unavailable repository, but user can easily overlook it during “dnf update” because the issue is reported as a warning.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
Backport the following upstream pull requests into the DNF stack on Fedora:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/701
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
User Experience
Broken repositories are recognized early, enabling the users to act upon them by double-checking their repository configuration or filing bugs, instead of assuming no upgrades are available.
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? product
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)