The man page for DNF5 in Rawhide shows --skip-broken to be a legal generic option, however it does not show up in a "dnf --help" and in practice its use results in this error: Unknown argument "--skip-broken" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch DNF5 using the --skip-broken option. 2. 3. Actual Results: Throws an error. Expected Results: Documented option should work. Considering that --help doesn't show the --skip-broken option this is probably a bug in the man page rather than DNF5. Even if the option is useless in the current version of DNF, it may be a good idea to support it in DNF5, and simply ignore it, to maintain compatibility with existing automation scripts. The man page also does not document the available legacy DNF compatibility options (for example --enablerepo for --enable-repo).
Sorry, this is indeed a mistake in dnf5 man pages. The `--skip-broken` and `--skip-unavailable` options are not general for any command, but are implemented only for some dnf5 commands - currently distrosync, downgrade, group install, group upgrade, install, and reinstall.
Observation: # dnf --skip-broken install filesystem Unknown argument "--skip-broken" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments. # dnf install --skip-broken filesystem ... works as expected
As suggested by my original report, and confirmed by Comment #1, the "bug" is in the man page, not in the operation of dnf.
Should --skip-broken with upgrade? # dnf5 --skip-broken upgrade Unknown argument "--skip-broken" for command "dnf5". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments. # dnf5 upgrade --skip-broken Unknown argument "--skip-broken" for command "upgrade". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39.