On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 06:38:16AM +0100, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > While Debian's rpm utility uses a homedir-based RPMDB, nothing else, > especially > not Fedora, expects that and, since dnf uses the system-version of RPM to > bootstrap, you'll run into exactly such issues. > > I can't do anything about that, other than try to NMU a version of RPM that > has > this patch removed, but that might break tools like alien and I'm not very > interested in spending a lot of time on that.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 12:23:52PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > However I've downgraded it to important as eg Qubes 4.1 uses dnf on Debian to > download upgrades for dom0, which is Fedora based. So the package is certainly > not unusable for everyone, thus downgrading severity... Fair enough: it might be just a matter of documenting that dnf cannot be used to boostrap an RPM-based distribution from a Debian system. Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
