Bug 1254005 - dnf exclude doesn't work
Summary: dnf exclude doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-08-16 14:42 UTC by Tom Horsley
Modified: 2017-03-20 16:37 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2017-03-20 16:08:18 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Tom Horsley 2015-08-16 14:42:03 UTC
Description of problem:
Over in bug 1249309 (in comment 15) there is a pointer to a koji build
of xorg-x11-drv-libinput I need to use to fix my drag lock problems.

In the repos there is a xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.13.0-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm
which looks "newer" to dnf.

I don't want the repo version though because it doesn't have the drag lock
bug fix yet, so I tried adding this line to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

exclude=xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.13.0-1.*

It has no effect though, it keeps on downloading and trying to install the libinput driver from the repos. I just want it to exclude that version because a newer version is likely to contain the drag lock fix, so I'm willing to try the next version, just not that version, but I can't seem to get exclude to do that.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-1.1.0-2.fc22.noarch


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add the exclude line above in the [main] section
2.dnf clean packages
3.dnf clean metadata
4.dnf update

Actual results:
The dnf update still wants to:
Upgrading:
 xorg-x11-drv-libinput      x86_64      0.13.0-1.fc22        updates       30 k


Expected results:
No new xorg-x11-drv-libinput till a version newer than 0.13.0-1 comes along.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2015-08-31 11:50:32 UTC
As a temp workround use: `exclude=xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.13.0-1.fc22.*1, please

Comment 2 Tom Horsley 2015-08-31 12:23:53 UTC
This particular example doesn't really matter any longer since the libinput driver with the bugfix has now been released (and is on my system), now I'm just having trouble imagining how the .*1 on the end of the work around ever matches anything :-).

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2015-09-14 14:19:17 UTC
Pleas see bug #1262878. Possible duplicate or related.

Comment 4 Paul Howarth 2016-02-12 14:35:18 UTC
There's an inconsistency between the config file parser and the command-line option parser. Specifying epoch/version/release for an exclude in the config file does not work, but does with --exclude=n-e:v-r on the command-line.

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:29:19 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 17:31:32 UTC
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no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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Comment 7 Paul Howarth 2016-07-20 08:36:43 UTC
Inconsistency between the config file parser and the command-line option parser still present in F-23.

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Comment 9 Michael Mráka 2016-11-25 09:22:03 UTC
Bug is still valid

dnf-2.0.0-0.rc1.1.git.0.e6df665

# dnf install --assumeno libidn2 -x libidn2-0.11-1.*
Last metadata expiration check: 1:07:16 ago on Fri Nov 25 09:12:29 2016 CET.
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================================
 Package                 Arch                   Version                     Repository               Size
==========================================================================================================
Installing:
 libidn2                 x86_64                 0.11-1.fc24                 updates                 102 k

Transaction Summary
==========================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 102 k
Installed size: 335 k
Operation aborted.

while specifying full EVR works

# dnf install --assumeno libidn2 -x libidn2-0.11-1.fc24 
Last metadata expiration check: 1:06:59 ago on Fri Nov 25 09:12:29 2016 CET.
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================================
 Package                 Arch                   Version                      Repository              Size
==========================================================================================================
Installing:
 libidn2                 x86_64                 0.10-4.fc24                  fedora                 101 k

Transaction Summary
==========================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 101 k
Installed size: 300 k
Operation aborted.

Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 09:48:21 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 11 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-03-20 16:08:18 UTC
The problem was, that glob usage was not implemented in libdnf for release. I implement it and it was released in libdnf-0.7.2 into rawhide (Fedora26).

Comment 12 Paul Howarth 2017-03-20 16:15:51 UTC
That doesn't sound like it addresses the inconsistency between the command-line and config-file parsers (Comment#4), which manifests without globs. Or does it?

Comment 13 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-03-20 16:37:03 UTC
Ok, the original issue was solved with new conf parser in dnf-2.1. Dnf-2.1 was released into rawhide and will be part of Fedora26. We also provide testing repository for Fedora24+ ("dnf copr enable rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf-nightly").
Hope that you can try and see improvements in dnf-2.1. 

Have a fun with it.


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