User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Firefox/17.0 Build Identifier: In the manual page for dnf version 0.2.22 section 8; the following help is mentioned " Dist-sync command dnf dist-sync As necessary upgrades, downgrades or keeps all installed packages to match the latest version avail‐ able from any enabled repository. Distribution-sync command dnf distribution-sync Deprecated alias for the Dist-sync command. " When I try the same option on the command line; I get the following output [root@my ~]# date Mon May 6 16:41:00 IST 2013 [root@my ~]# rpm -q dnf dnf-0.2.22-1.git97180b8.fc18.noarch [root@my ~]# dnf dist-sync No such command: dist-sync. Please use /usr/bin/dnf --help dnf distribution-sync This option is too missing from dnf command-line options. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.man dnf 2.As root user; dnf dist-sync 3.As root user; dnf distribution-sync Actual Results: No such command: dist-sync. Please use /usr/bin/dnf --help No such command: distribution-sync. Please use /usr/bin/dnf --help Expected Results: The options as stated in manual page need to work. The options stated for the command need to be documented in the manual page &/ Texinfo
Hello, this is a mistake in the documentation: the command name is the same as in Yum, working spellings are 'distro-sync' and 'distribution-synchronization'. Commit fd83a20 addresses the issue, the fix will be available with dnf-0.3.5 in F19 and later. Thanks for reporting this.