Bug 1123670 - RFE: error message when installing obsoleted packages
Summary: RFE: error message when installing obsoleted packages
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Packaging Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-27 21:40 UTC by Jaroslav Škarvada
Modified: 2014-07-28 04:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-07-28 04:57:34 UTC
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Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2014-07-27 21:40:11 UTC 
Description of problem:
Dnf doesn't show error message (like yum does) when trying to install obsoleted packages which may lead to confusing errors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.5.4-1.fc20

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install blueman

Actual results:
Error: nothing provides gvfs-obexftp needed by blueman-1.23-7.fc20.x86_64

Expected results:
Package blueman-1.23-7.fc20.x86_64 is obsoleted by bluez-5.18-1.fc20.x86_64 which is already installed

Additional info:
Yum shows the above message (from expected results) which is probably better as it directly points user where the problem is.
Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2014-07-28 04:57:34 UTC 
Hello Jaroslav,

This is not a bug, blueman can not be installed anyway and DNF first runs into the requires error before checking the obsoletes.
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