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Bug 1934883 - [RFE] dnf: swap more than two packages in one transaction
Summary: [RFE] dnf: swap more than two packages in one transaction
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: dnf-community
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Reported: 2021-03-03 22:49 UTC by Carl George 🤠
Modified: 2021-05-12 01:08 UTC (History)
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Description Carl George 🤠 2021-03-03 22:49:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
`yum swap` allowed swapping more than two packages using `--` as a delimiter between the packages to remove and the packages to install.  This no longer works with `dnf swap`.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-4.6.0-1.fc34.noarch


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
(the exact packages don't matter, these were picked at random)
1. dnf install color-filesystem emacs-filesystem
2. dnf swap -- color-filesystem emacs-filesystem -- kde-filesystem mesa-filesystem


Actual results:
dnf swap: error: unrecognized arguments: kde-filesystem mesa-filesystem


Expected results:
Uninstall of color-filesystem and emacs-filesystem, install of kde-filesystem and mesa-filesystem.


Additional info:
`dnf shell` can also be used to accomplish this task, but that requires interactive input, a separate file, or shell redirection.  `dnf swap` is an easy and convenient way to perform transactions like this in a single command non-interactively.  It is especially useful when building container images.
Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2021-03-03 23:00:34 UTC 
This is similar to bug 1403465, though this one talks about restoring functionality that YUM previously had, and that bug talked about adding *new* syntax to support this.
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