Bug 1512663

Summary:	dnf impossible to install docs if tsflags=nodocs is in dnf.conf, can't override settings from commandline
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pasi Karkkainen <pasik>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dmach, iboverma, jmracek, mhatina, packaging-team-maint, pasik, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Pasi Karkkainen 2017-11-13 19:44:04 UTC

Description of problem:

Fedora Docker container images contain the following in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf (among others):

tsflags=nodocs

Which results in smaller images because docs aren't installed, which is fine in most cases.. But it seems it's impossible to actually install the docs when one actually wants/needs them for some packages..

So this doesn't work:
dnf reinstall git-core-doc --setopt='tsflags='

I also tried this variant, doesn't work either:
dnf --setopt='tsflags=' reinstall git-core-doc

Only way to get the docs installed is to first remove the tsflags=nodocs line from /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and *then* reinstall the rpms.

For some reason dnf commandline options aren't respected and overriding options set in dnf.conf.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-2.7.5-1.fc26.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add "tsflags=nodocs" to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
2. Try to install rpm with docs included: dnf reinstall git-core-doc --setopt='tsflags='


Actual results:
docs aren't installed by dnf/rpm, setopt tsflags doesn't seem to override /etc/dnf/dnf.conf settings

Expected results:
dnf commandline options should override dnf.conf values and docs should be installed when requested from dnf commandline.

Comment 1 Daniel Mach 2017-11-15 12:15:15 UTC

The --setopt option *appends* to the list of flags that set in configuration.
There is really no way how to disable a flag this way.
DNF team doesn't want to change existing behavior.

Comment 2 Irina Boverman 2017-12-05 02:48:03 UTC

This is not how it works in yum/centos7.
It allows config to be changed by using --setopt='tsflags='.
Why is dnf behaviour different?

Comment 3 Daniel Mach 2017-12-06 12:17:12 UTC

Good point about YUM compatibility.
We'll look into this.

Comment 4 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-12-08 12:08:14 UTC

I created a patch that should solve the issue (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/998).

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Comment 6 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-06-28 08:26:24 UTC

The issue is solved by dnf-3.0.1-1 that was released into rawhide.