Bug 1259175

Summary:	dnf distro-sync unexpectedly removes packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniel Mach <dmach>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	bruno, johannespfrang, jsilhan, jzeleny, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, tim.lauridsen, vmukhame, zbyszek
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Description Daniel Mach 2015-09-02 07:01:39 UTC

I updated f22 to f23 by running:
dnf distro-sync --releasever=23

This made rpmfusion repos unavailable, because they do not exist for $releasever 23

dnf knows that some repos are broken and disables them.
dnf distro-sync removes all packages that are not found in repos.

Imagine situation when a server with yum repos has an outage.
dnf disables the repo(s) and distro-sync removes packages.

I'd like dnf not to remove packages by default and introduce an option to allow removing extra packages or re-use --allowerasing.
Using -x option to manually exclude packages from distro-sync doesn't help.

Comment 1 Radek Holy 2015-09-07 11:19:55 UTC

Thank you for the report. The distro-sync way of upgrading Fedora is not supported but considering how often repositories are not available, it might be useful in other cases as well. We'll take a look.

Comment 2 Honza Silhan 2015-10-19 09:03:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1244175 ***