Bug 1283255 - downgrade doesn't resolve dependencies automatically
Summary: downgrade doesn't resolve dependencies automatically
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libdnf
Version: rawhide
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: 2015-11-18 14:25 UTC by Kamil Páral
Modified: 2017-02-13 10:22 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-02-10 15:03:02 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Kamil Páral 2015-11-18 14:25:37 UTC
Description of problem:
If I want to downgrade a package, I have to manually list all of its dependencies and downgrade them as well. That's tiresome and difficult to do. Could you please make downgrade operation automatically downgrade necessary dependencies as well?

Very simple example:

$ sudo dnf downgrade nautilus
Last metadata expiration check performed 2:16:29 ago on Wed Nov 18 13:02:40 2015.
Error: package nautilus-3.18.1-1.fc23.x86_64 requires nautilus-extensions(x86-64) = 3.18.1-1.fc23, but none of the providers can be installed
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)

$ sudo dnf downgrade nautilus*
Last metadata expiration check performed 2:16:31 ago on Wed Nov 18 13:02:40 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================================================
 Package                                  Arch                        Version                             Repository                   Size
============================================================================================================================================
Downgrading:
 nautilus                                 x86_64                      3.18.1-1.fc23                       fedora                      2.4 M
 nautilus-extensions                      x86_64                      3.18.1-1.fc23                       fedora                       81 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================
Downgrade  2 Packages


dnf-1.1.3-1.fc23.noarch

Comment 1 Michael Mráka 2015-11-19 09:51:01 UTC
Well, what does exactly mean necessary dependencies?
All dependencies down to e.g. glibc?
Or dependencies which somehow conflict with downgraded nautilus version? (This is what's going on now.)

Maybe you just wanted to remove latest nautilus update in which case 
# dnf history list nautilus
# dnf history undo <id-of-last-update-transaction>
would do the job for you.

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2015-11-19 10:34:53 UTC
(In reply to Michael Mráka from comment #1)
> Or dependencies which somehow conflict with downgraded nautilus version?
> (This is what's going on now.)

Yes, that's what I meant. In this case it's really simple, 'nautilus*' solves it, but in some cases, you need include many differently named packages in the set, and you need to go one by one, manually adding one additional package to the downgrade line, try again, read the error, add another package, try again, read the error, ... until you have listed everything needed on the command line.

I assume dnf should be able to figure this out automatically, i.e. find out the smallest set of packages available in the repos that need to be installed on the system in order to have the package in question downgraded while all dependencies are satisfied. In most cases this means downgrading a set of packages (in some cases it can also mean installing or removing some).

> 
> Maybe you just wanted to remove latest nautilus update in which case 
> # dnf history list nautilus
> # dnf history undo <id-of-last-update-transaction>
> would do the job for you.

No, I really wanted to downgrade a package :) I'm from Fedora QA, I spend a large portion of my time using unreleased builds/updates, or comparing those unreleased builds with older builds (either from repos or from koji), and downgrading is a very common operation for me. It would be great if it could resolve the deps automatically and I didn't have to spend that much time doing it manually.

Btw, "history undo" is handy but very limited, e.g. it doesn't work if one update replaces an older update in "updates" repo (because then there's nothing to go back to, you need to downgrade to the version in "fedora" repo, for which you need the "downgrade" command). But that's just a side remark.

Comment 3 Honza Silhan 2015-11-23 12:35:00 UTC
Probably we should add `SOLVER_FLAG_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE` flag into the depsolver not blindly set downgrade for all dependencies beforehand.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:24:52 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 6 Jaroslav Mracek 2016-11-29 20:30:07 UTC
It should be fixed by Pull-request: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/666

Comment 7 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-02-10 15:57:14 UTC
Bugs fixed in version of dnf-2.0.1-1.

Comment 8 Kamil Páral 2017-02-13 10:22:55 UTC
Thanks!


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