Bug 1039415

Thank you for the report.

Are you sure that it does not list any packages?  At least, It should list packages installed during the last command. In your case, it should list xchat and libvirt, if you have installed them with a single command, or libvirt, if you have installed xchat and then libvirt.

No,I tested one more time just now,
dnf install xchat
and run dnf history userinstalled 
it show xchat is installed(actually,libvirt is installed too)
then remove libvirt,and then install libvirt again,
run dnf history userinstalled after the installation of libvirt
the output is:No packages to list

That's strange, I cannot reproduce it. It shows libvirt is installed here.
How did you do the last install of libvirt? "dnf install libvirt"? Or "yum install libvirt"?

FYI :)

1) remove xchat, and then install it.
run dnf history userinstalled after the installation of xchat
the output is:
packages installed by user
xchat
2) dnf install virt-manager
   output of dnf history userinstalled:
   packages installed by user
   virt-manager
   then run dnf romove xchat
   the output of dnf history userinstalled:
   No packages to list
3) dnf install virt-manager
   then restart the system
   the output of dnf history userinstalled:
   No packages to list

(In reply to Radek Holy from comment #3)
> That's strange, I cannot reproduce it. It shows libvirt is installed here.
> How did you do the last install of libvirt? "dnf install libvirt"? Or "yum
> install libvirt"?

dnf install libvirt,there are also something strange,I will attach the screenshot

Created attachment 834233 [details]
screenshot

As you can see from the screenshot,it show that the installed size is :0
when I try to dnf remove libvirt

Created attachment 834234 [details]
screenshot

Created attachment 834235 [details]
dnf4

As you can see from the last two screenshot,when I do "dnf install virt-manager"
it says the size is :584K;when I do "dnf remove virt-manager" it says 
the size is :3.5M
ohoh～，need I open one more bug for this ?

(In reply to lnie from comment #4)
> 2) dnf install virt-manager
>    output of dnf history userinstalled:
>    packages installed by user
>    virt-manager
>    then run dnf romove xchat
>    the output of dnf history userinstalled:
>    No packages to list

Yes, it seems that DNF is not able to find the installation reason of packages installed before the last transaction.

(In reply to lnie from comment #4)
> 3) dnf install virt-manager
>    then restart the system
>    the output of dnf history userinstalled:
>    No packages to list

I cannot reproduce that. It shows virt-manager is installed here, even after the restart.

(In reply to lnie from comment #10)
> As you can see from the last two screenshot,when I do "dnf install
> virt-manager"
> it says the size is :584K;when I do "dnf remove virt-manager" it says 
> the size is :3.5M
> ohoh～，need I open one more bug for this ?

It seems as correct behaviour. When installing, it shows package download size. When removing, it shows installed files size. If you have a different opinion, please open a new bug.

Anyway, I am going to look at the (2). Hopefully, it will solve the (3), too.

> (In reply to lnie from comment #4)
> > 3) dnf install virt-manager
> >    then restart the system
> >    the output of dnf history userinstalled:
> >    No packages to list
> 
> I cannot reproduce that. It shows virt-manager is installed here, even after
> the restart.
> 
I tested it on VM ,maybe that's the reason?

> It seems as correct behaviour. When installing, it shows package download
> size. When removing, it shows installed files size. If you have a different
> opinion, please open a new bug.
‘it show that the installed size is :0 when I try to dnf remove libvirt’
 is also supposed to be  a correct behaviour? 
 As you know,it's not a big problem,as long as the packages can be installed   and removed successfully,just feel weird.
 Or,maybe it's an error?I will attach two more screenshots.
 one is the screenshot when do 'yum install xchat'
 the other is the screenshot when do 'dnf install xchat'
 the 'Total download size' are same,while the Installed Size are different.
 It seems that the yum one is right.:)

Created attachment 834645 [details]
yum

Created attachment 834646 [details]
dnf

(In reply to lnie from comment #12)
> I tested it on VM ,maybe that's the reason?

I also tested it on VM :-/

> ‘it show that the installed size is :0 when I try to dnf remove libvirt’
>  is also supposed to be  a correct behaviour? 

Yes, it is, because libvirt package contains no files.

>  Or,maybe it's an error?I will attach two more screenshots.
>  one is the screenshot when do 'yum install xchat'
>  the other is the screenshot when do 'dnf install xchat'
>  the 'Total download size' are same,while the Installed Size are different.
>  It seems that the yum one is right.:)

Yes, it seems like a bug. Please, open a new bug for that.

> 
> Yes, it seems like a bug. Please, open a new bug for that.
  opened one #bug1040255 :)

It seems there is a problem with cache. After running "dnf clean dbcache", you should see all user-installed packages.

(In reply to Radek Holy from comment #17)
> It seems there is a problem with cache. After running "dnf clean dbcache",
> you should see all user-installed packages.

It becomes better,after run "dnf clean dbcache".However,It still unable to put all the installed packages.
As you can see from the attachment,it only shows xchat,rsyslog installed,
while I also have installed libvirt and virt-manager using dnf.

Created attachment 836100 [details]
dnfy

what's worse, "dnf history userinstalled"takes several minutes before it finally shows the output

(In reply to lnie from comment #18)
> It becomes better,after run "dnf clean dbcache".However,It still unable to
> put all the installed packages.
> As you can see from the attachment,it only shows xchat,rsyslog installed,
> while I also have installed libvirt and virt-manager using dnf.

Well, it should list only packages, which you have installed using "dnf install" command directly (no dependencies, no packages installed by Anaconda, no packages installed by Yum). If all applies, could you please attach your "/var/liv/dnf/history/history-*.sqlite" to let me look at that?


(In reply to lnie from comment #20)
> what's worse, "dnf history userinstalled"takes several minutes before it
> finally shows the output

Do you mean after the "clean dbcache" or every time? In the first case, DNF builds the cache again which might take a while. However if any of these cases are unacceptable for you, open a new bug, please.

Created attachment 836257 [details]
no /var/liv

Created attachment 836258 [details]
history,you can see,I do install libvirt using dnf

> Well, it should list only packages, which you have installed using "dnf
> install" command directly (no dependencies, no packages installed by
> Anaconda, no packages installed by Yum). If all applies, could you please
> attach your "/var/liv/dnf/history/history-*.sqlite" to let me look at that?
  I know it only list that packages,I'm pretty sure that I had installed libvirt and virt-manager using dnf. As you can see from the screenshot there is no /var/liv in my system.Just in case,I have dnf remove them,and dnf install them again.

Created attachment 836259 [details]
I dnf install abrt-cli,and do 'clean dbcache',then'dnf history userinstalled',after a long while ,there is no abrt-cli in the output

> 
> 
> (In reply to lnie from comment #20)
> > what's worse, "dnf history userinstalled"takes several minutes before it
> > finally shows the output
> 
> Do you mean after the "clean dbcache" or every time? In the first case, DNF
> builds the cache again which might take a while. However if any of these
> cases are unacceptable for you, open a new bug, please.
  after a reboot or "dnf remove",I have to 'clean dbcache'before "dnf history userinstalled" shows the better output,so...that's really buzzing

(In reply to lnie from comment #24)
> libvirt and virt-manager using dnf. As you can see from the screenshot there
> is no /var/liv in my system.Just in case,I have dnf remove them,and dnf
> install them again.

"/var/lib/dnf/history/history-*.sqlite" -- I am sorry for the typo.

(In reply to lnie from comment #26)
>   after a reboot or "dnf remove",I have to 'clean dbcache'before "dnf
> history userinstalled" shows the better output,so...that's really buzzing

Yes, that is just a workaround. I am working on it.

Created attachment 837113 [details]
history-*.sqlite

I think https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libsolv-0.4.1-0.gita8e47f1.fc20 might fix this issue too.

Yes, I am testing it now.

Yes, the bug in libsolv was the cause.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1041577 ***