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Bug 1169165

Summary:	let glob pattern describing package to match multiple packages
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Michal Luscon <mluscon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
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Version:	21	CC:	akozumpl, cra, jsilhan, mluscon, petersen, pnemade, rholy, tla
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Last Closed:	2015-02-20 08:32:35 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Timur Kristóf 2014-11-30 22:57:26 UTC

Description of problem:
When supplying the command-line argument '--exclude' or '-x' to dnf install, dnf displays an error message instead of installing the matching packages and excluding the specified packages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.6.1-1.fc21.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a root console
2. Type 'dnf install libreport-*.x86_64 -x *-devel'

Actual results:
dnf displays a "not installable" error message. See below for the pastebin of the exact output.

Expected results:
dnf should install every package that matches "libreport-*.x86_64" except those that match "*-devel"

Additional info:
The same command works as expected with yum.
Output of dnf: http://pastebin.com/m3i2HU4n
Output of yum: http://pastebin.com/vazFCv5G

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2014-12-01 16:13:09 UTC

Thanks for the report. DNF tries to select only one package that best matches the pattern. In DNF it works if you set multilib_policy to all: `dnf install libreport-*.x86_64 -x *-devel --setopt=multilib_policy=all`. We should change that to search them all. It should first get all package names and then choose right architecture for each. I will fix it.

Comment 2 Timur Kristóf 2014-12-03 11:22:58 UTC

Hi Jan, thanks for your answer! Let me know when I can take a look at your fix. :)

Comment 3 Honza Silhan 2014-12-09 16:24:41 UTC

We should add new function to DNF - get_best_selectors, which  would return list of selectors. The list will have more than one value only if package description pattern has `*` inside package name.

Michael, take a look, please.

Comment 4 Honza Silhan 2015-01-19 12:44:09 UTC

*** Bug 1183439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Honza Silhan 2015-01-23 09:20:39 UTC

*** Bug 1184529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-02-16 00:03:22 UTC

dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-1.fc21,hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21,dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-1.fc21,hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21,dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-02-17 08:04:16 UTC

Package hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-1.fc21, dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21 dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-1.fc21 dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-2139/dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-1.fc21,hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21,dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-02-20 08:32:35 UTC

hawkey-0.5.3-2.fc21, dnf-plugins-core-0.1.5-1.fc21, dnf-0.6.4-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.