1680566 – cannot disable an alias

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Bug 1680566 - cannot disable an alias

Summary: cannot disable an alias

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	dnf
Sub Component:
Version:	8.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Priority:	low
Severity:	low
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	8.0
Assignee:	Pavla Kratochvilova
QA Contact:	Jan Blazek
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TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2019-02-25 10:30 UTC by Karel Srot
Modified:	2020-11-04 01:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	dnf-4.2.21-1.el8
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Last Closed:	2020-11-04 01:52:20 UTC
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Description Karel Srot 2019-02-25 10:30:56 UTC

Description of problem:

dnf man page says:

All  aliases  are  defined in configuration files in directory /etc/dnf/aliases.d/ in the [aliases] section, and aliases
       created by the alias command are located in the file USER.conf.  Optionally, there  is  a  section  [main]  with  option
       enabled  defaulting to True.

However that doesn't work.

# dnf alias add foo=reinstall
Aliases added: foo
# cat /etc/dnf/aliases.d/USER.conf
[main]
enabled = True

[aliases]
foo = reinstall
# sed -i 's/True/False/' /etc/dnf/aliases.d/USER.conf
# cat /etc/dnf/aliases.d/USER.conf
[main]
enabled = False

[aliases]
foo = reinstall

# dnf foo bash
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Repository beaker-client-testing is listed more than once in the configuration
Beaker Client - RedHatEnterpriseLinux7 - Testin 1.4 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:01    
Beaker Client - RedHatEnterpriseLinux7           36 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
Beaker harness                                   32 kB/s | 1.3 kB     00:00    
QA Tools Incubator                               10 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
QA Tools Incubator Testing                       10 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
rhel                                            646 kB/s | 2.7 kB     00:00    
rhel-AppStream                                  411 kB/s | 2.8 kB     00:00    
Copr repo for standard-test-roles owned by aste 2.9 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:01    
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package        Arch             Version                   Repository      Size
================================================================================
Reinstalling:
 bash           x86_64           4.4.19-7.el8              rhel           1.5 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================

Total download size: 1.5 M
Installed size: 6.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 

The above is incorrect, the alias is disabled and therefore dnf should report unknown command.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.0.9.2-4.el8.noarch

Comment 6 Pavla Kratochvilova 2020-01-08 06:25:21 UTC

PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1568
Tests: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/ci-dnf-stack/pull/754

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:52:20 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (yum bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:4510

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