Changes/DNF-2.0

Change Proposal Name

Summary

DNF rebase to version 2.0.

Owner

• Name: Jan Silhan
• Name: Michal Luscon
• Name: Igor Gnatenko
• Email: jsilhan@redhat.com, mluscon@redhat.com, ignatenko@redhat.com
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 26
• Last updated: 2016-09-08
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

DNF-2.0 is the next upcoming major version of DNF package manager. Unfortunately it brings some incompatibilities with previous version of DNF (DNF-1) which were either needed to preserve compatibility with YUM CLI or where bigger redesigns were needed. A list of identified incompatible changes can be found here[1].

Benefit to Fedora

DNF-2.0 brings many new features and bug fixes.

[Release Notes]

Scope

• Proposal owners:

• Other developers: Owners of 3rd party DNF plugins or components depending on DNF should adjust their packages otherwise they may not work with DNF-2.

• Release engineering: All release enginerring tools that depends on DNF should be tested against DNF-2.0.

• • List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Enduser compatibility should be preserved as much as possible. Only minor

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

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)