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Bug 1938352 - Fix documentation: repository-packages
Summary: Fix documentation: repository-packages
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Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: amatej
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: dnf-community
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Reported: 2021-03-12 20:57 UTC by Thiago Sueto
Modified: 2021-03-15 13:55 UTC (History)
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Description Thiago Sueto 2021-03-12 20:57:10 UTC
Actual results:

The current documentation states:

dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> install [<package-spec>...]
              Install all packages in the repository.

Expected results:

dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> install [<package-spec>...]
              Install package from a specific repository.
dnf [options] repository-packages <repoid> install
              Install all packages in the repository.

Description of problem:

Because of this lack of documentation, coming from zypper, I thought there was no equivalent option to zypper install/update/dup --from.

This initially led me to believe the only way to simulate the same behavior was by using --disablerepo, which requires knowing the repository from which a given package would be taken from beforehand. Moreover, --disablerepo does not ensure that the package will be taken from the desired repository. Thus, if you have many repos, it's possible that you'll need to type several --disablerepo instances, making the command particularly long.

dnf repository-packages <repoid> install <package> however does exactly the same and is safer and quicker than --enablerepo and --disablerepo overall. It should be made clearer in the dnf man pages.

I'd also argue that this is a more common example than installing all packages from a specific repository, as the latter usually fails since repositories tend to have conflicting packages as well as dependencies from other repositories. From what I understand, it only works with small repositories.

Comment 1 amatej 2021-03-15 13:55:19 UTC
I made a PR proposing a documentation fix: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1745

FWIW, I like the --repo option for this use case, it seems to be pretty much the equivalent of --from. :)


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