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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Update on DNF05 in Fedora
From:       Peter Robinson <pbrobinson () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-07-28 9:14:46
Message-ID: CALeDE9NhB8neNJ8rvBS9F_bCFH3EhONbWSpe6GDYh1muPrw_CQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 9:47 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Dne 27. 07. 23 v 22:23 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a):
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 02:54:13PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >> Samantha Bueno <sbueno@redhat.com> writes:
> >>> We've gone ahead and decided not to replace DNF with DNF05 in Fedora
> >>> 39 and, perhaps notably, Fedora 40 as well.
> >> For those of us who upgraded to DNF05 in rawhide to test it, is there a
> >> quick reference for our paths forward?  Er, backward?  I upgraded at the
> >> wrong time and spent half a day recovering my system, I'd rather avoid
> >> that if I have to go back to DNF04...
> > I would expect a revert back to where /usr/bin/dnf is dnf4 (but
> > hopefully dnf5 is still available/seperate).
>
>
> Please note that this is not just about changing where /usr/bin/dnf
> points to. I was unpleasantly surprised that DNF5 is using different
> locations for data cache and there is no migration path back and forth,
> which leaves some unattended directories behind. I am very grumpy about
> this, because the cache is invaluable on Rawhide being sometimes the
> only (or at minimum the easiest) way to revert to older package in case
> of troubles.

In that sort of usecase it's a once off change when you move back to
dnf4, you can always grab rpms manually either from the remaining dnf5
local cache or worst case from koji.
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