Bug 2011850

Summary:	dnf distro-sync says a pkg isn’t installed even when it is
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Adam Hosek <ahosek>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED MIGRATED	QA Contact:	swm-qe
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.4	CC:	james.antill, mbocek
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Description Adam Hosek 2021-10-07 14:11:33 UTC

Description of problem:
On RHEL 8.4 “dnf distro-sync” returns misleading information - that a package isn’t installed even though it is.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.4.2-11.el8.noarch

How reproducible:
Install any package from some repository, disable the repository and run dnf distro-sync <package>.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable a repository that contains a package not available in other enabled repositories, for example CentOS Extras repository:
# cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/extras.repo <<EOF
[extras]
name=CentOS Extras $releasever - \$basearch
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/\$releasever/extras/\$basearch/os/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

2. Install a package which is available only in the newly enabled repository, for example cpaste from CentOS Extras:
# yum install -y --disablerepo "*" --enablerepo extras cpaste

3. Disable the repository from step 1
# dnf config-manager --set-disabled extras

4. Run dnf distro-sync with the newly installed package:
# yum distro-sync cpaste

Actual results:
# yum distro-sync cpaste

No package cpaste installed.
Error: No packages marked for distribution synchronization.

Expected results:
Just the error is printed, the sentence “No package cpaste installed” isn’t correct. Because:
# rpm -q cpaste
cpaste-1.0.0-3.el8.x86_64

...the cpaste is installed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jaroslav Mracek 2022-04-26 09:41:14 UTC

Thank you very much for the report. We would like to improve reports in the next major version of software management that is planned for RHEL 10. Due to other priorities and low severity of the issue I am closing the bug report.

Comment 2 Michal Bocek 2023-09-22 11:23:31 UTC

I'm reopening the bug to have it revisited because the reason why it was closed - having dnf4 replaced by dnf5 in RHEL10 - is no longer valid. Thank you for considering fixing the issue.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-22 11:51:37 UTC

Issue migration from Bugzilla to Jira is in process at this time. This will be the last message in Jira copied from the Bugzilla bug.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-22 11:54:21 UTC

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