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Description of problem: I noticed that system update listed "SuperLU" package as being upgraded. So I decided to check what it is. 20:23 root@puchatek:hrw# dnf info superlu Last metadata expiration check: 0:15:05 ago on Tue Mar 29 20:08:12 2016. Installed Packages Name : SuperLU Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 0 Version : 5.1.1 Release : 2.fc25 Size : 482 k Repo : @System From repo : rawhide Summary : Subroutines to solve sparse linear systems URL : http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/ License : BSD and GPLV2+ Description : SuperLU contains a set of subroutines to solve a sparse linear system : A*X=B. It uses Gaussian elimination with partial pivoting (GEPP). : The columns of A may be preordered before factorization; the : preordering for sparsity is completely separate from the factorization. And then tried to remove it: 20:23 root@puchatek:hrw# dnf remove superlu No match for argument: superlu Error: No packages marked for removal. Had to use PrOPeR case to get it accepted for removal: 20:28 root@puchatek:hrw# dnf remove SuperLU Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Removing: SuperLU x86_64 5.1.1-2.fc25 @rawhide 482 k armadillo x86_64 6.600.4-2.fc25 @rawhide 55 k arpack x86_64 3.3.0-2.b0f7a60git.fc24 @rawhide 311 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Remove 3 Packages Installed size: 848 k Is this ok [y/N]: n IMHO it should accept any case combination in all commands. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20:28 root@puchatek:hrw# dnf --version 1.1.7 Installed: dnf-0:1.1.7-2.fc25.noarch at 2016-03-14 10:00 Built : Fedora Project at 2016-03-09 16:48 Installed: rpm-0:4.13.0-0.rc1.27.fc25.x86_64 at 2016-03-14 09:59 Built : Fedora Project at 2016-03-10 14:46 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf remove superlu 2. dnf remove SuperLU Actual results: Other capitalisation than one in package name is accepted for some commands and not for the others. Expected results: Other capitalisation than one in package name is accepted for all commands. Additional info:
I think this behaviour is same that yum command provided. The search and info commands are not case sensitive as they can provide more information to user but we may have same named package in the repository more than once. E.g. superlu and SuperLU so while installing or removing dnf need to make sure correct package name is picked.
If dnf has to be 'just new yum' then let it keep original name. Allowing mixed case letters in package names are 'feature bug' of Fedora but at least for official packages it will be consistent.
This behaviour is reasonable as search is used for identifying the right package name.