On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 05:01:14PM +0200, Daniel Mach wrote: > > > > What's the benefit in changing to be compatible with YUM as opposed > > to stickin with current alogorithm ? > > > If a user migrates from RHEL 7 to the next version of RHEL (or CentOS), > there will be continuity in used algorithm and history db checksums. > It's important to some enterprise customers to keep the history db in a > good shape. > Fedora users don't care about that much in general.
Creating incompatibilties for Fedora users to benefit RHEL users is not a very compelling argument to me. > > Surely if we don't change it, even fewer users will notice that DNF's > > behaviour is different from YUM's, since DNF has been the default for > > many releases now. > > > > I could understand the motiviation to stay compatible with YUM if we > > were only just about to switch Fedora from YUM to DNF, but time is > > way in the past now. Shouldn't we optimize for the fact that DNF is > > the more widely deployed & used tool, and thus not worry about > > YUM compatibility in respect of the history DB ? > > > Unfortunately RHEL knows nothing about DNF yet > and it's YUM compatibility what matters. If DNF looks at the previous transaction and sees the checksum doesn't match that of the new transaction, could it fallback to re-calculate the checksum with the old algorithm and retry validation. It can then continue to use its current algorithm from that point onwards. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LQ2YS754Y2VKFDS4CPZ3EOS22AAZ6CAO/
