Bug 26479

Summary:	Remove mandatory systemd runtime dependency from dnf
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joseph Wang <joequant>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dnf-4.2.19-1.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	dependency diagram for dnf

Description Joseph Wang 2020-04-14 14:21:37 CEST

Description of problem:

dnf has a dependency on systemd to use the timer functionality to 
automatically regenerate the cache.  This duplicates dnf automatic and
also adds bloat to dnf when used in a container that doesn't have
systemd


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install dnf
2. see that it pulls in systemd

Recommend removing the dnf-makecache.timer service from vanilla dnf. people
that want auto updates can do it by installing dnf-automatic

Comment 1 Joseph Wang 2020-04-14 14:22:23 CEST

Created attachment 11586 [details]
dependency diagram for dnf

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-04-14 21:41:45 CEST

Well, the diagram is impressive! I admit to failing to spot systemd.

Assigning to Neal as the DNF maintainer.

Severity: normal => enhancement
Assignee: bugsquad => ngompa13

Comment 3 Neal Gompa 2020-04-17 04:44:04 CEST

I'm not removing the timers, but I will remove the mandatory dependency on systemd, as the scriptlets gracefully fail when systemd is not available.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 4 Neal Gompa 2020-04-17 04:44:48 CEST

Also, dnf-automatic and dnf-makecache are two very different things. The former depends on the latter, and the latter is intended to be available by default.

Comment 5 Neal Gompa 2020-04-17 04:48:15 CEST

Fixed in dnf-4.2.19-2.mga8

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Neal Gompa 2020-04-17 04:48:41 CEST

Summary: Remove dnf timers and systemd dependency => Remove mandatory systemd dependency from dnf

Neal Gompa 2020-04-17 04:48:49 CEST

Summary: Remove mandatory systemd dependency from dnf => Remove mandatory systemd runtime dependency from dnf