Functionality roughly equivalent to Yum's --skip-broken is the default in DNF. This is arguably correct from a user-experience point of view; such issues are usually transient and fixed as mirrors settle out or the problem is corrected in the Fedora repositories. However, it's concerning when the skipped package has a security vulnerability. I suggest that once bug #1234930 (Add yum-security functionality to DNF) is implemented, an additional warning be automatically given when the skipped update was known to fix a security issue. Help text could point to Fedora resources for getting help with the problem.
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Security plugin was implemented in DNF-2.1.1-1. It is available for fc26 and rawhide. It can be also installed from our testing repository where we provide it for fc24 and later versions. Please can you try it and report what can be improve according to yum security behavior? Thanks a lot for your experience.
In dnf-2.5.0 we enhance reports about skipped updates and also we implemented security feature from yum as previously mentioned, therefore I think that reported problem here is at least partially solved. Unfortunately at the present time we cannot report if skipped packages provides any security fix. But user can use security options to figure it out by its own. Please if any problem or missing feature in DNF according to security, please don't hesitate to open the bug report.
I'd like to leave this open as a future RFE; leaving the user to figure it out on their own isn't as friendly as we could be. As described in the original bug, this was always intended to be a follow-on request to the addition of the yum-security features.
Ok, now we can fix that. Please can you provide an example of output that you would prefer?
I am sorry but there is no activity from reporter.
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days