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Bug 1707453

Summary: dnf update --allowerasing just removes a package, without installing a new package.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Andrei Stepanov <astepano>
Component: dnfAssignee: Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
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Priority: high    
Version: 8.2CC: dmach, emrakova, james.antill
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 8.0Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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Description Andrei Stepanov 2019-05-07 14:45:28 UTC 
dnf update  --allowerasing just removes package

Here are commands I run:

[root@rhel8-7737 bin]# rpm -q python3-ldb-devel
python3-ldb-devel-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64


[root@rhel8-7737 bin]# dnf list --showduplicates python3-ldb-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:21 ago on Tue 07 May 2019 10:21:28 AM EDT.
Installed Packages
python3-ldb-devel.x86_64              1.4.2-2.el8              @rhel-8-buildroot
Available Packages
python3-ldb-devel.x86_64              1.4.2-2.el8              @rhel-8-buildroot
python3-ldb-devel.x86_64              1.4.2-2.el8              rhel-8-buildroot 
python3-ldb-devel.x86_64              1.5.4-1.el8              brew-21544647    


[root@rhel8-7737 bin]# dnf update  --allowerasing python3-ldb-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:43 ago on Tue 07 May 2019 10:21:28 AM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package               Arch       Version           Repository             Size
================================================================================
Removing:
 python3-ldb-devel     x86_64     1.4.2-2.el8       @rhel-8-buildroot     354  

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove  1 Package

Freed space: 354  
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Erasing          : python3-ldb-devel-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64                   1/1 
  Running scriptlet: python3-ldb-devel-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64                   1/1 
  Verifying        : python3-ldb-devel-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64                   1/1 

Removed:
  python3-ldb-devel-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64                                          

Complete!


[root@rhel8-7737 bin]# rpm -q python3-ldb-devel
package python3-ldb-devel is not installed


I asked DNF to update the package. DNF just removed the current, without updating to the newest.

[root@rhel8-7737 bin]# dnf install python3-ldb-devel-1.5.4-1.el8.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:59 ago on Tue 07 May 2019 10:21:28 AM EDT.
Error: 
 Problem: problem with installed package python-ldb-devel-common-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64
  - package python3-ldb-devel-1.5.4-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with python-ldb-devel-common(x86-64) < 1.5.4-1.el8 provided by python-ldb-devel-common-1.4.2-2.el8.x86_64
  - conflicting requests
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)


Anyway, DNF should not just remove package for `dnf update` command.
Comment 1 Andrei Stepanov 2019-05-07 14:47:37 UTC 
[root@rhel8-7737 bin]# rpm -qa | grep -E 'dnf|rpm'
python3-libdnf-0.22.5-5.el8_0.x86_64
rpm-build-libs-4.14.2-17.el8.x86_64
dnf-plugin-spacewalk-2.8.5-9.module+el8+2754+6a08e8f4.noarch
dnf-data-4.0.9.2-5.el8.noarch
drpm-0.3.0-14.el8.x86_64
libdnf-0.22.5-5.el8_0.x86_64
rpm-plugin-selinux-4.14.2-17.el8.x86_64
python3-rpm-4.14.2-17.el8.x86_64
python3-dnf-4.0.9.2-5.el8.noarch
python3-dnf-plugins-core-4.0.2.2-3.el8.noarch
python3-dnf-plugin-spacewalk-2.8.5-9.module+el8+2754+6a08e8f4.noarch
dnf-plugin-subscription-manager-1.23.8-35.el8.x86_64
dnf-utils-4.0.2.2-3.el8.noarch
rpm-libs-4.14.2-17.el8.x86_64
rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit-4.14.2-17.el8.x86_64
dnf-4.0.9.2-5.el8.noarch
dnf-plugins-core-4.0.2.2-3.el8.noarch
rpm-4.14.2-17.el8.x86_64
Comment 2 Jaroslav Mracek 2019-05-14 07:39:12 UTC 
The issue is fixed in libsolv-0.7.2. The original report - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446068.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:22:06 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, 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/RHSA-2019:3583