Bug 1573678

Summary:	Unrecognized arguments: ‐‐allowerasing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Isaque Galdino <igaldino>
Component:	dnf-plugin-system-upgrade	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	27	CC:	extras-orphan
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Description Isaque Galdino 2018-05-01 23:12:26 UTC

Description of problem:
I have some packages that prevent from upgrading the system, so I used the option --allowerasing but system-upgrade doesn't recognize it.

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How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo dnf system-upgrade download ‐‐allowerasing --releasever=28

Actual results:
dnf system-upgrade: error: unrecognized arguments: ‐‐allowerasing

Expected results:
Run the command right

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Comment 1 Isaque Galdino 2018-05-02 12:42:09 UTC

The problem was actually that I was copying the --allowerasing command from this page: https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-27-fedora-28/
and it seems that it mess up with the characters.

So the solution is to just type it in the command line.