This may be a misunderstanding on my part. If so, I do apologize for reporting it here. Fedora 36 dnf-4.13.0-1.fc36.noarch /etc/dnf/dnf.conf: excludepkgs=wine* # dnf --setopt=includepkgs=wine* whatprovides wine* Last metadata expiration check: 2:00:01 ago on Sun 03 Jul 2022 07:13:44 AM PDT. Error: No matches found. If searching for a file, try specifying the full path or using a wildcard prefix ("*/") at the beginning. $ man dnf: --setopt=<option>=<value> Override a configuration option from the configuration file. To override configuration options for repositories, use re‐ poid.option for the <option>. Values for configuration op‐ tions like excludepkgs, includepkgs, installonlypkgs and ts‐ flags are appended to the original value, they do not over‐ ride it. However, specifying an empty value (e.g. --se‐ topt=tsflags=) will clear the option.
Hi, in case of the includepkgs option, dnf doesn't override the excludepkgs option but instead will exclude any package that doesn't match this list. See the dnf.conf man page for more information and an example of use. In your case, you can use the --disableexcludes command line switch.
Hi Pavla, Thank you for the help! I could not get the --disableexcludes option to work, But I did get the following to: # dnf --setopt=excludepkgs="" whatprovides wine # dnf --setopt=excludepkgs="" list wine I do believe the wording of the manual page is poorly stated: "Override a configuration option from the configuration file. To override configuration options for repositories, use repoid.option for the <option>. Values for configuration options like excludepkgs ..." This means that is will over ride my excludepkgs in my dnf.confg. But that is not the case. Perhaps we should change this bug report to a bug in the man page? -T
Oh, sorry, I just noticed that the --disableexcludes option takes a repoid as an argument. However, you can use --disableexcludes=all for it to apply to all configurations of excludes, not just for specific repository. As for the --setopt option, I believe the documentation is correct: "Values for configuration options like excludepkgs, includepkgs, installonlypkgs and tsflags are appended to the original value, they do not override it. However, specifying an empty value (e.g. --setopt=tsflags=) will clear the option." Just note that for example, --setopt=excludepkgs="" overrides the excludepkgs option, but has no effect on the includepkgs and vice versa.