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NAME
yum2dnf - Changes in DNF compared to YUM
--SKIP-BROKEN
For install command:
The --skip-broken option is an alias for --setopt=strict=0. Both options could be used
with DNF to skip all unavailable packages or packages with broken dependencies given to
DNF without raising an error causing the whole operation to fail. This behavior can be set
as default in dnf.conf file. See strict conf option.
For upgrade command:
The semantics that were supposed to trigger in YUM with --skip-broken are now set for
plain dnf update as a default. There is no need to use --skip-broken with the dnf upgrade
command. To use only the latest versions of packages in transactions, there is the --best
command line switch.
UPDATE AND UPGRADE COMMANDS ARE THE SAME
Invoking dnf update or dnf upgrade, in all their forms, has the same effect in DNF, with
the latter being preferred. In YUM yum upgrade was exactly like yum --obsoletes update.
CLEAN_REQUIREMENTS_ON_REMOVE ON BY DEFAULT
The clean_requirements_on_remove switch is on by default in DNF. It can thus be confusing
to compare the "remove" operation results between DNF and YUM as by default DNF is often
going to remove more packages.
NO RESOLVEDEP COMMAND
The YUM version of this command is maintained for legacy reasons only. The user can just
use dnf provides to find out what package provides a particular file.
NO DEPLIST COMMAND
An alternative to the YUM deplist command to find out dependencies of a package is dnf
repoquery --deplist using repoquery command.
NOTE:
Alternatively there is a YUM compatibility support where yum deplist is alias for dnf
repoquery --deplist command
EXCLUDES AND REPO EXCLUDES APPLY TO ALL OPERATIONS
YUM only respects excludes during installs and upgrades. DNF extends this to all
operations, among others erasing and listing. If you e.g. want to see a list of all
installed python-f* packages but not any of the Flask packages, the following will work:
dnf -x '*flask*' list installed 'python-f*'
THE INCLUDE OPTION HAS BEEN REMOVED
Inclusion of other configuration files in the main configuration file is no longer
supported.
DNF PROVIDES /BIN/<FILE> IS NOT FULLY SUPPORTED
After UsrMove there's no directory /bin on Fedora systems and no files get installed
there, /bin is only a symlink created by the filesystem package to point to /usr/bin.
Resolving the symlinks to their real path would only give the user a false sense that this
works, while in fact provides requests using globs such as:
dnf provides /b*/<file>
will fail still (as they do in YUM now). To find what provides a particular binary, use
the actual path for binaries on Fedora:
dnf provides /usr/bin/<file>
Also see related Fedora bugzillas 982947 and 982664.
SKIP_IF_UNAVAILABLE COULD BE ENABLED BY DEFAULT
In some distributions DNF is shipped with skip_if_unavailable=True in the DNF
configuration file. The reason for the change is that third-party repositories can often
be unavailable. Without this setting in the relevant repository configuration file YUM
immediately stops on a repository synchronization error, confusing and bothering the user.
See the related Fedora bug 984483.
OVERWRITE_GROUPS DROPPED, COMPS FUNCTIONS ACTING AS IF ALWAYS DISABLED
This config option has been dropped. When DNF sees several groups with the same group ID
it merges the groups' contents together.
MIRRORLIST_EXPIRE DROPPED
To simplify things for the user, DNF uses metadata_expire for both expiring metadata and
the mirrorlist file (which is a kind of metadata itself).
METALINK NOT RECOGNIZED IN THE MIRRORLIST REPO OPTION
The following part of yum.conf(5) no longer applies for the mirrorlist option:
As a special hack if the mirrorlist URL contains the word "metalink" then the value of
mirrorlist is copied to metalink (if metalink is not set).
The relevant repository configuration files have been fixed to respect this, see the
related Fedora bug 948788.
ALWAYSPROMPT DROPPED
Unsupported to simplify the configuration.
UPGRADE_REQUIREMENTS_ON_INSTALL DROPPED
Dropping this config option with blurry semantics simplifies the configuration. DNF
behaves as if this was disabled. If the user wanted to upgrade everything to the latest
version she'd simply use dnf upgrade.
DNF HISTORY ROLLBACK CHECK DROPPED
Since DNF tolerates the use of other package managers, it is possible that not all changes
to the RPMDB are stored in the history of transactions. Therefore, DNF does not fail if
such a situation is encountered and thus the force option is not needed anymore.
PACKAGES REPLACEMENT WITHOUT YUM SWAP
Time after time one needs to remove an installed package and replace it with a different
one, providing the same capabilities while other packages depending on these capabilities
stay installed. Without (transiently) breaking consistency of the package database this
can be done by performing the remove and the install in one transaction. The common way to
set up such a transaction in DNF is to use dnf shell or use the --allowerasing switch.
E.g. say you want to replace A (providing P) with B (also providing P, conflicting with
A) without deleting C (which requires P) in the process. Use:
dnf --allowerasing install B
This command is equal to yum swap A B.
DNF provides swap command but only dnf swap A B syntax is supported
DEPENDENCY PROCESSING DETAILS ARE NOT SHOWN IN THE CLI
During its depsolving phase, YUM outputs lines similar to:
---> Package rubygem-rhc.noarch 0:1.16.9-1.fc19 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: rubygem-net-ssh-multi >= 1.2.0 for package: rubygem-rhc-1.16.9-1.fc19.noarch
DNF does not output information like this. The technical reason is that depsolver below
DNF always considers all dependencies for update candidates and the output would be very
long. Secondly, even in YUM this output gets confusing very quickly especially for large
transactions and so does more harm than good.
See the related Fedora bug 1044999.
DNF PROVIDES COMPLIES WITH THE YUM DOCUMENTATION OF THE COMMAND
When one executes:
yum provides sandbox
YUM applies extra heuristics to determine what the user meant by sandbox, for instance it
sequentially prepends entries from the PATH environment variable to it to see if it
matches a file provided by some package. This is an undocumented behavior that DNF does
not emulate. Just typically use:
dnf provides /usr/bin/sandbox
or even:
dnf provides '*/sandbox'
to obtain similar results.
BANDWIDTH LIMITING
DNF supports the throttle and bandwidth options familiar from YUM. Contrary to YUM, when
multiple downloads run simultaneously the total downloading speed is throttled. This was
not possible in YUM since downloaders ran in different processes.
INSTALLONLYPKGS CONFIG OPTION
Compared to YUM, DNF appends list values from the installonlypkgs config option to DNF
defaults, where YUM overwrites the defaults by option values.
THE USAGE OF DELTA RPM FILES
The boolean deltarpm option controls whether delta RPM files are used. Compared to YUM,
DNF does not support deltarpm_percentage and instead chooses some optimal value of
DRPM/RPM ratio to decide whether using deltarpm makes sense in the given case.
HANDLING .SRPM FILES AND NON-EXISTENT PACKAGES
DNF will terminate early with an error if a command is executed requesting an installing
operation on a local .srpm file:
$ dnf install fdn-0.4.17-1.fc20.src.rpm tour-4-6.noarch.rpm
Error: Will not install a source rpm package (fdn-0.4.17-1.fc20.src).
The same applies for package specifications that do not match any available package.
YUM will only issue a warning in this case and continue installing the "tour" package. The
rationale behind the result in DNF is that a program should terminate with an error if it
can not fulfill the CLI command in its entirety.
PROMOTING PACKAGE TO INSTALL TO A PACKAGE THAT OBSOLETES IT
DNF will not magically replace a request for installing package X to installing package Y
if Y obsoletes X. YUM does this if its obsoletes config option is enabled but the behavior
is not properly documented and can be harmful.
See the related Fedora bug 1096506 and guidelines for renaming and obsoleting packages in
Fedora.
BEHAVIOR OF --INSTALLROOT OPTION
DNF offers more predictable behavior of installroot. DNF handles the path differently from
the --config command-line option, where this path is always related to the host system
(YUM combines this path with installroot). Reposdir is also handled slightly differently,
if one path of the reposdirs exists inside of installroot, then repos are strictly taken
from installroot (YUM tests each path from reposdir separately and use installroot path if
existed). See the detailed description for --installroot option.
DIFFERENT PROMPT AFTER TRANSACTION TABLE
DNF doesn't provide download functionality after displaying transaction table. It only
asks user whether to continue with transaction or not. If one wants to download packages,
they can use the 'download' command.
LIST COMMAND SHOWS ALL REPO ALTERNATIVES
DNF lists all packages from all repos, which means there can be duplicates package names
(with different repo name). This is due to providing users possibility to choose preferred
repo.
YUM-LANGPACKS SUBCOMMANDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED
Translations became part of core DNF and it is no longer necessary to manage individual
language packs.
Following sub-commands were removed:
• langavailable
• langinstall
• langremove
• langlist
• langinfo
┌────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Original YUM tool │ DNF command/option │ Package │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum check │ dnf repoquery │ dnf │
│ │ --unsatisfied │ │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-langpacks │ │ dnf │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-aliases │ dnf alias │ dnf │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info │ option in │ dnf-plugins-core │
│ │ debuginfo-install.conf │ │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-changelog │ │ dnf-plugins-core │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-copr │ dnf copr │ dnf-plugins-core │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-fastestmirror │ fastestmirror option in │ dnf │
│ │ dnf.conf │ │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-fs-snapshot │ │ dnf-plugins-extras-snapper │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-local │ │ dnf-plugins-core │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-merge-conf │ │ dnf-plugins-extras-rpmconf │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-post-transaction-actions │ │ dnf-plugins-core │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-priorities │ priority option in │ dnf │
│ │ dnf.conf │ │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-remove-with-leaves │ dnf autoremove │ dnf │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-show-leaves │ │ dnf-plugins-core │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-tmprepo │ --repofrompath option │ dnf │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-tsflags │ tsflags option in │ dnf │
│ │ dnf.conf │ │
├────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-plugin-versionlock │ │ python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock │
└────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
│yum-rhn-plugin │ │ dnf-plugin-spacewalk │
└────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
Plugins that have not been ported yet:
yum-plugin-filter-data, yum-plugin-keys, yum-plugin-list-data, yum-plugin-protectbase,
yum-plugin-ps, yum-plugin-puppetverify, yum-plugin-refresh-updatesd,
yum-plugin-rpm-warm-cache, yum-plugin-upgrade-helper, yum-plugin-verify
Feel free to file an RFE for missing functionality if you need it.
All ported YUM tools are now implemented as DNF plugins.
┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Original YUM tool │ New DNF command │ Package │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│debuginfo-install │ dnf debuginfo-install │ dnf-plugins-core │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│find-repos-of-install │ dnf list installed │ dnf │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│needs-restarting │ dnf tracer │ dnf-plugins-extras-tracer │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│package-cleanup │ dnf list, dnf repoquery │ dnf, dnf-plugins-core │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│repoclosure │ dnf repoclosure │ dnf-plugins-extras-repoclosure │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│repodiff │ dnf repodiff │ dnf-plugins-core │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│repo-graph │ dnf repograph │ dnf-plugins-extras-repograph │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│repomanage │ dnf repomanage │ dnf-plugins-extras-repomanage │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│repoquery │ dnf repoquery │ dnf │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│reposync │ dnf reposync │ dnf-plugins-core │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│repotrack │ dnf download --resolve │ dnf-plugins-core │
│ │ --alldeps │ │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-builddep │ dnf builddep │ dnf-plugins-core │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-config-manager │ dnf config-manager │ dnf-plugins-core │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-debug-dump │ dnf debug-dump │ dnf-plugins-extras-debug │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yum-debug-restore │ dnf debug-restore │ dnf-plugins-extras-debug │
├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│yumdownloader │ dnf download │ dnf-plugins-core │
└──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
Detailed table for package-cleanup replacement:
┌─────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
│package-cleanup --dupes │ dnf repoquery --duplicates │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│package-cleanup --leaves │ dnf repoquery --unneeded │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│package-cleanup --orphans │ dnf repoquery --extras │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│package-cleanup --problems │ dnf repoquery --unsatisfied │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│package-cleanup --cleandupes │ dnf remove --duplicates │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│package-cleanup --oldkernels │ dnf remove --oldinstallonly │
└─────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘
│package-cleanup --oldkernels │ dnf remove $(dnf repoquery │
│--keep=2 │ --installonly --latest-limit=-2) │
└─────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘
YUM-UPDATEONBOOT AND YUM-CRON
DNF does not have a direct replacement of yum-updateonboot and yum-cron commands.
However, the similar result can be achieved by dnf automatic command (see DNF Automatic).
You can either use the shortcut:
$ systemctl enable --now dnf-automatic-install.timer
Or set apply_updates option of /etc/dnf/automatic.conf to True and use generic timer unit:
$ systemctl enable --now dnf-automatic.timer
The timer in both cases is activated 1 hour after the system was booted up and then
repetitively once every 24 hours. There is also a random delay on these timers set to 5
minutes. These values can be tweaked via dnf-automatic*.timer config files located in the
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ directory.
UTILITIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN PORTED YET
repo-rss, show-changed-rco, show-installed, verifytree, yum-groups-manager
Take a look at the FAQ about YUM to DNF migration. Feel free to file an RFE for missing
functionality if you need it.
AUTHOR
See AUTHORS in DNF source distribution.
COPYRIGHT
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