Bug 1747737

It looks like liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch obsoletes and provides liberation-narrow-fonts but the updated liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch version does not:

$ dnf repoquery --obsoletes liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch
liberation-narrow-fonts < 1:2.0.0
$ dnf repoquery --provides liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch
liberation-fonts = 1:2.00.5-1.fc30
liberation-narrow-fonts = 1:2.00.5-1.fc30

$ dnf repoquery --obsoletes liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch
$ dnf repoquery --provides liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch
liberation-fonts = 1:2.00.5-3.fc30

Reassigning to liberation-fonts component to resolve the packaging problem.

You can workaround it by locking liberation-fonts package on older version: # dnf versionlock liberation-fonts

Same bug: #1747785.

# dnf update
skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
 liberation-fonts noarch 1:2.00.5-1.fc30 fedora 8.0 k

# dnf update --best --allowerasing liberation-fonts
Last metadata expiration check: 0:59:12 ago on Mon 02 Sep 2019 08:01:11 AM CEST.
Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch
  - cannot install both liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch and liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch
  - problem with installed package liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-1.fc30.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-1.fc30.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

# dnf update --best --allowerasing liberation-fonts --skip-broken
Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch
  - cannot install both liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch and liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch
  - problem with installed package liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-1.fc30.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-1.fc30.noarch

May I ask you what version of dnf are you using?

My first thought was, that the provide/obsolete are missing in newer version by a mistake. But in liberation-fonts changelog I found:

* Mon Jun 24 2019 Vishal Vijayraghavan <vvijayra AT redhat DOT com> - 1:2.00.5-3
- Resolves: rhbz#1643920: Removed Obsoletes: %{fontname}-narrow-fonts and Provides: %{fontname}-narrow-fonts macro
- Splitted the font family(mono, sans and serif) into diferrent root font directories

Now the situation is confusing for the dependency solver:

- given the obsolete/provide in the version liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch, this is the best version of liberation-narrow-fonts package
- at the same time liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch is the best version of liberation-fonts

this end in solution where two versions of liberation-fonts are about to be installed, which is not viable.
I'm not sure how to solve this situation, but better workaround at the moment is not to use versionlock (as I recommended in comment#1), but exclude liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch package. E.g. adding

excludepkgs=liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch

line into [main] section of /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

$ env LANGUAGE=en dnf --version                                                                                                                                                                                                                              0.3s (0) 11:19:58
4.2.7
  Installed: dnf-0:4.2.7-2.fc30.noarch at Вт 30 июл 2019 09:40:08
  Built    : Fedora Project at Вт 23 июл 2019 07:10:30

  Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2.1-5.fc30.x86_64 at Пн 02 сен 2019 05:58:34
  Built    : Fedora Project at Чт 29 авг 2019 10:46:16

env LANGUAGE=en dnf --version        
4.2.7
  Installed: dnf-0:4.2.7-2.fc30.noarch at Tue 30 Jul 2019 10:59:54 AM GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Tue 23 Jul 2019 07:10:30 AM GMT

  Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2.1-5.fc30.x86_64 at Mon 02 Sep 2019 05:26:38 AM GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Thu 29 Aug 2019 10:46:16 AM GMT

same here if wine is installed can't upgrade without error:

LANG=C dnf --version
4.2.7
  Installed: dnf-0:4.2.7-2.fc30.noarch at Sat Aug 24 12:35:09 2019
  Built    : Fedora Project at Tue Jul 23 07:10:30 2019

  Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2.1-5.fc30.x86_64 at Sun Sep  1 09:32:22 2019
  Built    : Fedora Project at Thu Aug 29 10:46:16 2019

Not that surprisingly the same problem hits liberation-fonts-2.00.3-1.fc29 as well.  This cannot be installed even with '--allowerasing' present.

I think a simple solution to this would be to bump liberation-narrow-fonts epoch to 2, to make sure that the liberation-narrow-fonts EVR compares higher to 1:2.00.5-1.fc30 that's provided by liberation-fonts.

(In reply to Kalev Lember from comment #9)
> I think a simple solution to this would be to bump liberation-narrow-fonts
> epoch to 2, to make sure that the liberation-narrow-fonts EVR compares
> higher to 1:2.00.5-1.fc30 that's provided by liberation-fonts.

Yes +1

got same issue here

 Problem: cannot install both liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-1.fc30.noarch and liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-3.fc30.noarch

 >  env LANGUAGE=en dnf --version 
4.2.7
  Installed: dnf-0:4.2.7-2.fc30.noarch at Wed 04 Sep 2019 06:34:29 AM GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Tue 23 Jul 2019 07:10:30 AM GMT

  Installed: rpm-0:4.14.2.1-5.fc30.x86_64 at Wed 04 Sep 2019 06:31:19 AM GMT
  Built    : Fedora Project at Thu 29 Aug 2019 10:46:16 AM GMT

*** Bug 1748302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 1747785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

You can try:

rpm -e --nodeps liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-1.fc30.noarch

It should remove the package and not the dependencies. The issue looks like it's because the package names are different but the install location is the same.


SOURCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/cxzcwy/cant_upgrade_a_package/

FEDORA-2019-2b29cee6f9 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-2b29cee6f9

FEDORA-2019-61d9c21e30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-61d9c21e30

Thanks for the fix, it's working! Let's test and give it some karma in Bodhi so that it can quickly be pushed to stable.

liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-2.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 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-c3d484d6c4

liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-2.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-2.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-2019-2b29cee6f9

it seems to be fixed so far. Thanks RH people!

It is fixed for me too. Thanks to Fedora Team!

Different version, same issue ?

Dependencies resolved.

 Problem: cannot install both liberation-fonts-1:2.00.3-1.fc29.noarch and liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-2.fc29.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.5-1.fc29.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-2.fc29.noarch
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                       Architecture                                        Version                                                         Repository                                           Size
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
 liberation-fonts                                              noarch                                              1:2.00.3-1.fc29                                                 fedora                                              7.8 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Skip  1 Package

Nothing to do.
Complete!

(In reply to Albert Szostkiewicz from comment #23)
> Different version, same issue ?
> 
> Dependencies resolved.
> 
>  Problem: cannot install both liberation-fonts-1:2.00.3-1.fc29.noarch and
> liberation-fonts-1:2.00.5-2.fc29.noarch
>   - cannot install the best update candidate for package
> liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.5-1.fc29.noarch

According to comment #20 from 2019-09-05 this trouble is resolved by version 1.07.6-2 while "regular" repositories for fc29 are still offering only 1.07.5-1.  While 1.07.6-2 does fix this the update is apparently still stuck up in "channels".

liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

liberation-narrow-fonts-1.07.6-2.fc31 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.