Description of problem: During the gold age of 'yum', 'yum reinstall <packagename>' would reinstall the package and cleanup the existing duplicate (for example left by a broken transaction.) 'dnf' is unable to do it and there seems to be no other way to do it. For example: 'yum-deprecated check' says: ... zlib-1.2.8-9.fc23.i686 is a duplicate with zlib-1.2.8-7.fc22.i686 then we try to fix this manually: " # dnf reinstall zlib Last metadata expiration check performed 1:27:28 ago on Tue Nov 24 15:46:41 2015. Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================ Reinstalling: zlib i686 1.2.8-9.fc23 fedora 98 k replacing zlib.i686 1.2.8-7.fc22 Removing: minizip i686 1.2.8-7.fc22 @System 54 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================ Remove 1 Package Total size: 98 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: [SKIPPED] zlib-1.2.8-9.fc23.i686.rpm: Already downloaded Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next successful transaction. You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'. Error: Transaction check error: file /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.8 from install of zlib-1.2.8-9.fc23.i686 conflicts with file from package zlib-1.2.8-7.fc22.i686 Error Summary -------------" <actually, no error summary can be seen here> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.for any package that has a duplicate, try to reinstall it in order to remove the duplicate 2. 3. Actual results: package is not reinstalled, duplicate is not removed Expected results: package is reinstalled, duplicate is removed Additional info: Of course, ideally we should have a way to do this automatically for ALL duplicated packages.
By the way, it would be nice if this is the default behaviour of upgrade, also.
reinstall works as expected. The problems of previous transactions should be fixed by plugin or manually. DNF cannot know what is expected operation from user's POV.
Not sure 'restore' is the right word. I'd rather call it 'cleanup_duplicates'. On the other hand, dnf-plugins-extras is not yet available, right?
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'cleanup_duplicates' sounds good. It will be a separate subpackage in dnf-plugins-extras (this already exists).
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
*** Bug 1366492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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(In reply to Honza Silhan from comment #5) > 'cleanup_duplicates' sounds good. It will be a separate subpackage in > dnf-plugins-extras (this already exists). Is this a good idea? When I need this functionality, I'm usually not able to install additional packages.
To list duplicated packages use dnf repoquery --duplicated To remove them dnf remove --duplicates dnf-2.0.0-0.rc1.1