Bug 1525645

Summary:	"dnf list --installed" shows @System as the repository for every package unless run as root
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pavel Roskin <plroskin>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Marek Blaha <mblaha>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	27	CC:	dmach, jmracek, mblaha, packaging-team-maint, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Pavel Roskin 2017-12-13 19:25:18 UTC

Description of problem:

"dnf list --installed" used to be a useful tool to find out where the installed packages come from. I could run "dnf list --installed | grep testing" to see if I had any testing packages installed. That functionality is described at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22560/list-all-rpm-packages-installed-from-repo-x

At some point, that functionality has been lost. "dnf list --installed" shows @System in the third column for every package.

When dnf is run as root, the repositories are shown correctly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dnf-2.7.5-2.fc27.noarch

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "dnf list --installed | grep grep"

Actual results:
grep.x86_64    3.1-3.fc27     @System

Expected results:

grep.x86_64    3.1-3.fc27     @fedora

Additional info:

The same behavior is observed when "dnf repository-packages updates --installed list" is run. It returns nothing when run as unprivileged user, but returns the list of updates when run as root.

I have an up-to-date Fedora 27 x86_64 with updates and updates-testing repositories installed.

Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2017-12-18 14:35:12 UTC

It looks like you do not have access (as a regular user) to yumdb, which is located in /var/lib/dnf/yumdb directory by default (you can change the location by persistdir option in the config file). Please, check your permissions on this directory - you will need read and execute permission at least.

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 14:19:10 UTC

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On 2018-Nov-30  Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
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Comment 3 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-11-27 14:27:55 UTC

I am unable to reproduce it with dnf-4.0.4 available in Fedora 29. I am sorry, but we cannot rebase dnf in Fedora 27 or 28 (compatibility reasons).