Bug 1634232

Summary:	dnf lost aliases for command arguments
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kees de Jong <keesdejong+dev>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Pavla Kratochvilova <pkratoch>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	29	CC:	alalexey, dmach, marius.andreiana, mblaha, ngompa13, packaging-team-maint, penryu, pkratoch, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Last Closed:	2019-04-29 02:15:12 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Kees de Jong 2018-09-29 07:36:31 UTC

Description of problem: I just tried the Fedora 29 Beta, I was surprised that the command argument aliases for DNF are not working anymore. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# dnf --version
3.6.1
  Installed: dnf-0:3.6.1-1.fc29.noarch at Sat 29 Sep 2018 07:10:28 AM GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Tue 25 Sep 2018 09:39:56 AM GMT

  Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2-1.fc29.x86_64 at Tue 25 Sep 2018 07:54:53 PM GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Wed 22 Aug 2018 08:07:47 AM GMT


How reproducible on Fedora 29 Beta:
# dnf up
No such command: up. Please use /usr/bin/dnf --help
It could be a DNF plugin command, try: "dnf install 'dnf-command(up)'"

How reproducible on Fedora 28:
# dnf up
Last metadata expiration check: 0:26:51 ago on za 29 sep 2018 09:05:27 CEST.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

To get a full overview of the aliases on Fedora 28, type in dnf in the command line and then double press the tab key:
# dnf 
Display all 107 possibilities? (y or n)
autoremove                    debug-dump                    dup                           groups                        install-nevra                 playground                    repograph                     reposync                      up
autoremove-n                  debuginfo-install             erase                         groupupdate                   leaves                        provides                      repoinfo                      ri                            update
autoremove-na                 debug-restore                 erase-n                       help                          list                          ref                           repolist                      rm                            updateinfo
autoremove-nevra              deplist                       erase-na                      history                       list-sec                      refresh                       repomanage                    se                            update-minimal
build-dep                     dg                            erase-nevra                   in                            list-security                 rei                           repo-packages                 search                        update-to
builddep                      distribution-synchronization  fedup                         info                          list-updateinfo               reinstall                     repo-pkgs                     sh                            upgrade
check                         distro-sync                   group                         info-sec                      localinstall                  remove                        repoquery                     shell                         upgrade-minimal
check-update                  distrosync                    grouperase                    info-security                 makecache                     remove-n                      repoquery-n                   summary-updateinfo            upgrade-to
check-upgrade                 dist-upgrade                  groupinfo                     info-updateinfo               mark                          remove-na                     repoquery-na                  swap                          up-min
clean                         downgrade                     groupinstall                  install                       mc                            remove-nevra                  repoquery-nevra               system-upgrade                versionlock
config-manager                download                      grouplist                     install-n                     module                        repoclosure                   repository-packages           u-m                           whatprovides
copr                          dsync                         groupremove                   install-na                    needs-restarting              repo-graph                    repository-pkgs               um 

Version on Fedora 28:
# dnf --version
2.7.5
  Installed: dnf-0:2.7.5-12.fc28.noarch at wo 30 mei 2018 06:27:57 GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at wo 18 apr 2018 14:29:51 GMT

  Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2-1.fc28.x86_64 at za 08 sep 2018 12:10:32 GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at wo 22 aug 2018 12:06:17 GMT


Expected results: Unless this feature got removed (can't find any mention in the changelogs), I would expect these aliases to still work.


Additional info: These kind of aliases are also present in zypper (SUSE), so it's a nice feature to win people over from SUSE to Fedora/RHEL.

Comment 1 Tim Hammerquist 2018-12-15 10:22:10 UTC

I also really liked this abbreviation in Fedora 27, also missing in F29 for me.

After digging through the dnf repo, I found these links:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/980

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/980/commits/a32955de06f29f8e16e5f73d89bd3fb2441cd91a

Appears these abbreviated commands were removed to resolve ambiguity in shell completion.

Comment 2 Neal Gompa 2019-04-20 18:06:02 UTC

We should be able to reintroduce them soon enough.

The basic functionality was restored: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/commit/da52d0ee8ec53fc67477a448ef9da73e32ce2cf2

There's a PR open for installing the aliases: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1382

Comment 3 Pavla Kratochvilova 2019-04-24 06:55:29 UTC

The patch adds back some of the aliases that were removed previously (namely: dsync, dg, in, mc, rei, rm, se, sh, up, up-min), and some are in zypper.conf file that won't be included in Fedora. The idea is to support one abbreviation for each command at maximum and have a separate config file for zypper compatibility.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-04-25 16:43:35 UTC

dnf-4.2.5-1.fc29 libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-2612a121ba

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-04-26 22:10:11 UTC

dnf-4.2.5-1.fc29, libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-2612a121ba

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-04-29 02:15:12 UTC

dnf-4.2.5-1.fc29, libdnf-0.31.0-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Marius Andreiana 2020-05-26 06:41:39 UTC

*** Bug 1839951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***