On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 09:09:00 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > This may or may not have anything to do with your problem but it's one I > ran into with dnf... > > I was trying to update a package I KNEW was in updates-testing (I pushed it > myself) but when I asked dnf to update it it gave me the "Nothing to do" > message. > > After that I tried all the dnf clean metadata|all tricks and it still > wouldn't find the updated package. Then I tried dnf > --enablerepo=updates-testing list <package> and lo and behold it was there! > > Then I released that because it was a library, and another package was > dependent on it, that it was refusing to update the package! > > While that's certainly the correct behavior, the lack of any sort of USEFUL > message to the user is extremely confusing and frustrating.
It's a known thing and a major design flaw in that tool. It tries to be helpful by hiding some things under the carpet, but that is counter-productive as it causes too much confusion. I think I've seen a few related messages on devel@ list recently, too. The evelopers are aware of it. With Yum it has been a bit similar with --skip-broken and suggesting that option when running into unresolvable dependencies. Many users follow such suggestions without even trying to understand the broken dependencies, and things can get worse because --skip-broken is not a safe solution. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
