Bug 2178129

Summary: dnf5 swap refuse to swap packages for an invalid reason
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
Component: dnf5Assignee: rpm-software-management
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Description Eva Mrakova 2023-03-14 11:52:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
dnf5 swap dnf5 zsh
refuses to swap the packages when dnf5-plugins is installed and provides confusing error message

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf5-5.0.7-20230314005057.17.g160033cc.fc38.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf5 -y install dnf5-plugins
2. dnf5 swap dnf5 zsh

Actual results:
# dnf5 swap dnf5 zsh
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: problem with installed package
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230313005754.13.g8893b905.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230313005754.13.g8893b905.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230312010106.13.g8893b905.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230312010106.13.g8893b905.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230311005341.13.g8893b905.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230311005341.13.g8893b905.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230310010158.9.g69428251.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230310010158.9.g69428251.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230309010222.0.g13886935.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230309010222.0.g13886935.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230308010238.5.0.5+95.gd51637fd.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230308010238.5.0.5+95.gd51637fd.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230307010450.5.0.5+95.gd51637fd.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230307010450.5.0.5+95.gd51637fd.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230306010025.5.0.5+93.g2f198d77.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230306010025.5.0.5+93.g2f198d77.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230305010712.5.0.5+93.g2f198d77.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230305010712.5.0.5+93.g2f198d77.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230304005752.5.0.5+93.g2f198d77.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230304005752.5.0.5+93.g2f198d77.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230303025047.5.0.5+91.g09a7f0c7.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230303025047.5.0.5+91.g09a7f0c7.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230302010422.5.0.5+91.g09a7f0c7.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230302010422.5.0.5+91.g09a7f0c7.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-0.20230301010623.5.0.5+82.gc6a09ee9.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-0.20230301010623.5.0.5+82.gc6a09ee9.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.6-2.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.6-2.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230314005057.17.g160033cc.fc38.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230314005057.17.g160033cc.fc38, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests

Expected results:
packages are swapped

Additional info:
* when dnf5-plugins is not installed 'dnf5 swap dnf5 zsh' swaps the packages without any problems
* 'dnf5 remove dnf5' works OK even when dnf5-plugins is installed
Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2023-03-20 15:20:06 UTC 
Actually here the behavior is exactly the same as with dnf4.

❯ dnf swap dnf5 acpi
Last metadata expiration check: 1:44:50 ago on Po 20. března 2023, 14:30:34.
Error: 
 Problem: problem with installed package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230313005754.13.g8893b905.fc37.x86_64
  - package dnf5-plugins-5.0.7-20230320005934.38.gae642bd8.fc37.x86_64 requires dnf5(x86-64) = 5.0.7-20230320005934.38.gae642bd8.fc37, but none of the providers can be installed
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What you need to do is add `--allowerasing` cmdline option (for both dnf4 and dnf5). But it would be nice if dnf5 could print a hint to the user.
Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-07 16:00:27 UTC 
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Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-21 14:31:28 UTC 
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Comment 4 Evan Goode 2025-06-17 22:46:59 UTC 
This issue is still valid. We should print an `--allowerasing` hint.