make Qubes-Whonix-Gateway able to function as UpdateVM out of the box with dnf

[phabricator-migrator]

Information

ID: 442
PHID: PHID-TASK-viegjh47wwndhdz4xpr5
Author: Patrick
Status at Migration Time: open
Priority at Migration Time: Normal

Description

dnf has not landed in Debian yet. This ticket may have to wait until #Debian_Stretch.

Just an uwt wrapper is missing, but it’s difficult to add one as of now without knowing the path to dnf.

Alternatively, and better, we would we would configure dnf to use Tor socks proxy settings. This is supported by dnf since version 1.1.6. (source 1 source 2) Not great since dnf does not support /etc/dnf.conf.d yet. [1]

(Similar to T401.)

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[1] upstream feature request: implement /etc/dnf.conf.d drop-in configuration folder

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deprecated:

• dnf doesn’t work with SOCKS
• The proxy option in dnf.conf doesn’t support socks5

Comments

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marmarek

2015-12-01 21:35:06 UTC

I don’t think dnf is needed for UpdateVM. Dom0 is still based on Fedora
20, and even if it wasn’t, you can simply use yum to download the
packages - RPMs are the same, repository metadata too. Is there any
particular problem? Or just following new versions?

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Patrick

2015-12-01 21:38:29 UTC

Only motivation: making sure it does not break in future. Just following
new versions and new (potential) Qubes developments.

I had the assumption, that in future qubes-dom0-update migth replace yum
with dnf. If that was the case, I would want to not break UpdateVM
functionality. But if this isn’t the case, then the priority for this
ticket is very low.

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Patrick

2016-07-02 18:09:39 UTC

GitHub - adrelanos/uwt at dnf

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Patrick

2017-03-01 00:02:21 UTC

Debian stretch comes without dnf.

• Debian -- Package Contents Search Results -- dnf
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827108#10

Rechecking this ticket when later at #debian_version_10_codename_buster etc.