Bug 2184329

Summary:	daemon: API to get severity, changelog, bug/CVE refs, etc. of available updates
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Martin Pitt <mpitt>
Component:	dnf5	Assignee:	rpm-software-management
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Version:	39	CC:	jkolarik, mblaha, nsella, pkratoch, rpm-software-management
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Description Martin Pitt 2023-04-04 09:15:43 UTC

Description of problem: With PackageKit and dnf 4's CLI we can get details about available updates, such as the changelog, severity (security, bug fix, enhancement), and a list of bugzilla or errata URLs. I don't see such an API in <https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnf_daemon/dnf5daemon_dbus_api.8.html>

This is necessary for replacing PackageKit on cockpit's "Software Updates" page (and most likely also for GNOME Software?)

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

dnf5daemon-server-5.0.7-1.fc39.x86_64

Thanks!

Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2023-04-12 15:11:56 UTC

I've added the bug to upstream dnfdaemon tracking issue https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues/169
Do I understand correctly that what you need is basically an equivalent of `dnf updateinfo --info -v` command?

Comment 2 Martin Pitt 2023-04-21 05:26:23 UTC

Marek: Sorry for missing your reply. Indeed `dnf updateinfo --info -v` looks roughly like what I'm looking for. For cockpit we don't care much whether there is a single call to get info for all pending updates, or a per-package call -- whichever is more efficient and easier on your side. Thanks!

Comment 3 Marek Blaha 2023-08-03 08:24:33 UTC

There is https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/pull/688 PR that introduces `Advisory` interface to get list of available updates.
The output contains what's present in `updateinfo` repository metadata.

Comment 4 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 07:13:03 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.