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Bug 1802237

Summary:	dnf - misspelled or non-existent package makes dnf fail to install others
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	lejeczek <peljasz>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	swm-qe
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	8.0	CC:	james.antill
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.0
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2020-03-04 11:09:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description lejeczek 2020-02-12 17:05:08 UTC

Description of problem:

If I do this:

$ dnf install -y netcdf-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libcurl-devel libgit2-devel gcc cairo-devel proj-nad proj-epsg proj-devel openssl-devel java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel netcdf-devel libxml2-devel libXt-devel gdal-devel sqlite-devel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:32 ago on Wed 12 Feb 2020 11:57:39 EST.
Package libjpeg-turbo-devel-1.5.3-10.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package gcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
No match for argument: proj-nad
No match for argument: proj-epsg
No match for argument: gdal-devel

.. and that's it! As above, nothing else gets installed. That's not how it worked nor how it should work in my option.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dnf-4.2.7-7.el8_1.noarch

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Comment 1 Jaroslav Mracek 2020-03-04 11:09:48 UTC

Thank you very much for your report. The change in behaviour was intended to resolve user case when you want to install some functionality from multiple packages. The behaviour that you requested would return 0 even when some of packages would be not available. Therefore functionality would be not installed but return code would be 0.

In case that you want to skip broken arguments, please just add --skip-broken option to command and DNF will skip arguments that cannot be resolved.

The behaviour of install command is described in https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#install-command-label.