Bug 1252106

Summary:	pkcon get-updates reports filtered-out packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Sullivan <jsrhbz>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	21	CC:	jonathan, klember, rdieter, rhughes, smparrish
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Description John Sullivan 2015-08-10 17:55:37 UTC

PackageKit-1.0.6-1.fc21.x86_64
mate-applet-softupd-0.3.0-1.fc21.x86_64
dnf-0.6.4-5.fc21.noarch
dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-2.fc21.noarch
yum-3.4.3-153.fc21.noarch
yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.31-27.fc21.noarch
hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21.x86_64
python-hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21.x86_64
libsolv-0.6.11-1.fc21.x86_64

Similar to bug 1243007 in "dnf check-update" (which is not *actually* a dupe of bug 1210445 as it claims) and possibly bug 1246875 (also about dnf check-update).

I have a local repo with packages I have either modified locally, or want to pin to older (less broken, for me) versions, set to a higher priority (lower priority value) so that the distro repos won't try to update them.

The old news is "yum check-update" does the same filtering that "yum update" does, so shows the same list of updates. It also states how many packages got filtered and if I want to know more about them I can run the check-update with --disablerepo to get the full list. "dnf check-update" does not do the same filtering, so reports packages that "dnf update" would not update. Now I can re-learn to type "dnf update --assumeno" instead of "dnf check-update", though I preferred the old way...

But I also use mate-applet-softupd to get a visible indication of when updates are available. This uses (I presume) "pkcon get-updates" or its equivalent in the background, which is now based on dnf/hawkey/libsolv and so behaves a bit like "dnf check-updates" rather than "yum check-updates".

Actually "dnf check-updates" is worse: not only does it list packages I've pinned back, but it also lists multiple versions of them from both the main fedora repo and fedora-updates repo. "pkcon get-updates" at least lists only the latest available version, but it still reports packages uninstallable due to priority restrictions.

This means that the software update icon will *always* be lit for me, which makes it pretty useless!

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