On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Miroslav Suchy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am working on switching rawhide targets to DNF. However on EL* is DNF not
> available.

Mock isn't available on EL* either.  It's in EPEL.

> Therefore you will not be able to build rawhide packages on EL7- using
> standard mock configuration.

Can DNF be packaged for EL7- in EPEL and used that way?

> I see several options to offer to user:
>
> 1) Discourage user from doing that by providing no hints how to workaround
> it.
>
> 2) Tell him that DNF is not available and he must run mock with "--yum"
> option. And warn him that he may get different depsolving.
>
> 3) Tell him that DNF is not available and fall back automatically to yum and
> warn him that he may get different depsolving.
>
> Unless somebody will have better idea I would go with (2).
>
> Ideas? Comments?

If DNF can't be packaged in EPEL, then I would agree option 2 seems to
be the best choice.

josh
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