Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
Hi, I had an enforced "not able to upgrade Fedora Rawhide for too long" period. On doing the updates, one of my four computers updated fine, the other three however got into problems. They are now in a state where "dnf check-updates" reports a number of obsoletes, but "dnf upgrade" says nothing t

Re: Broken dnf from 06-30-2018

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 09:06 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/13/2018 07:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > > PS Is it correct that dnf works fine without the history database, and > > seems not to recreate it? > > You will have lost your past history of dnf transactions. The next time > you install,

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 10:50:09 +0100 Russel Winder wrote: > Hi, > > I had an enforced "not able to upgrade Fedora Rawhide for too long" > period. On doing the updates, one of my four computers updated fine, > the other three however got into problems. They are now in a state > where "dnf check-upd

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 06:23 -0700, stan wrote: > […] > > I think you want to see what the issues are. Do > dnf --best update 2> dnf_errors.txt > and look at the output file. It is kind of like a log jam. There > are > probably a few key packages that are orphaned, and they depend on > older > l

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:15:19 +0100 Russel Winder wrote: [snip] > [root@anglides ~]# dnf upgrade --best > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:41 ago on Sun 05 Aug 2018 > 16:10:08 BST. > Dependencies resolved. > Nothing to do. > Complete! > > [root@anglides ~]# dnf check > … > zsh-5.5.1-1.fc29.x

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 10:22 -0700, stan wrote: […] > > I recently saw this with a package in F28. This shouldn't happen, as > far as I know, because the later package is replacing the earlier > package and dnf should know that. My take is that some change to the > package gives the later version

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 18:48 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > […] > I tried "dnf remove --duplicates" but that downloaded 2.3GB and then > failed to do anything due to dependency failures. > > Pragmatically I am not sure can try your suggestion as actually there > are 2242 problem packages not just t

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
Except of course that the packages sudo, systemd, and systemd-udev are protected and you cannot do "dnf remove" on them even if you are removing a duplicate :-( On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 19:23 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 18:48 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > > > > […] > > I tr

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Russel Winder
By judicious used of dnf, grep, and awk, I am now down to: [root@anglides ~]# dnf check-update Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:28 ago on Sun 05 Aug 2018 19:57:06 BST. [root@anglides ~]# dnf check sudo-1.8.23-1.fc29.x86_64 is a duplicate with sudo-1.8.23-3.fc29.x86_64 systemd-239-1.fc29.x86_64

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread stan
On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 19:59:55 +0100 Russel Winder wrote: > By judicious used of dnf, grep, and awk, I am now down to: > > [root@anglides ~]# dnf check-update > Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:28 ago on Sun 05 Aug 2018 > 19:57:06 BST. > [root@anglides ~]# dnf check > sudo-1.8.23-1.fc29.x86_64

Re: Duplicates and obsoletes problem

2018-08-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 08/05/2018 02:50 AM, Russel Winder wrote: I had an enforced "not able to upgrade Fedora Rawhide for too long" period. On doing the updates, one of my four computers updated fine, the other three however got into problems. They are now in a state where "dnf check-updates" reports a number of ob