Bug 1651574

Summary: Inconsistent return values
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Component: dnfAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
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Priority: high    
Version: 8.0CC: dmach, emrakova, extras-qa, frank.bruetting, james.antill, jberan, packaging-team-maint, pkratoch, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Target Release: 8.0   
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Clone Of: 1541832 Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-06-14 00:59:39 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jaroslav Mracek 2018-11-20 11:27:31 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1541832 +++

Description of problem:
Trying to install an already installed program returns 0, while trying to remove a not present program returns 1. Doesn’t make any sense to me…


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.7.5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. `dnf install dnf` ⇒ 0
2. `dnf install <not installed program>` ⇒ 1


Expected results:
Both commands should return 0. They output just states, that nothing has to be done – so why should that be an error?

--- Additional comment from Fedora End Of Life on 2018-02-20 10:32:18 EST ---

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle.
Changing version to '28'.

--- Additional comment from Pavla Kratochvilova on 2018-10-01 06:35:19 EDT ---

PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1227

--- Additional comment from Pavla Kratochvilova on 2018-10-04 01:24:39 EDT ---

Reassigning to jmracek who is more competent to solve this. Please ignore the above PR.

--- Additional comment from Jaroslav Mracek on 2018-11-20 06:26:45 EST ---

I created a patch (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1269) that should unify behavior.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-11-20 11:30:05 UTC 
This is part of yum-dnf compatibility.