Bug 1123670

Summary:	RFE: error message when installing obsoleted packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	akozumpl, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, rholy, tim.lauridsen
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Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2014-07-27 21:40:11 UTC

Description of problem:
Dnf doesn't show error message (like yum does) when trying to install obsoleted packages which may lead to confusing errors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.5.4-1.fc20

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install blueman

Actual results:
Error: nothing provides gvfs-obexftp needed by blueman-1.23-7.fc20.x86_64

Expected results:
Package blueman-1.23-7.fc20.x86_64 is obsoleted by bluez-5.18-1.fc20.x86_64 which is already installed

Additional info:
Yum shows the above message (from expected results) which is probably better as it directly points user where the problem is.

Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2014-07-28 04:57:34 UTC

Hello Jaroslav,

This is not a bug, blueman can not be installed anyway and DNF first runs into the requires error before checking the obsoletes.