> From: "Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 06:38:41 -0500 (EST), Honza Šilhan wrote: > > > "rpm -Uvh …" ~ "dnf install" - only difference is that dnf install can > > do downgrades too if you specify the version of the package > > So, if you run "dnf install *.rpm" and one of the local .rpm files is > older than what is installed, you cannot use that command because it > would want to perform a downgrade? If you don't want the downgrade to be applied you should exclude that package from cmdline (-x) or from the folder beforehand. > From: "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > would not be a topic if DNF would not be completly broken for "dnf > update *.rpm", in F22 it works sometimes while in F23 it is just > unuseable 99.9% of the time That's an important information, it would be great if you would cooperate mentioning it in your bug report and attaching the debugdata as was requested for each system. DNF versions are the same for F22 and F23 so I guess that would be a a different packaging of the local packages - we will know from the debugdata. > From: "Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > If an _upgrade_ introduces new sub-packages or new dependencies, you > need a method that can install those new packages *and* update older > installed ones at the same time. Running "rpm -U *.rpm" is like asking > RPM to "upgrade the installation to the packages specified by *.rpm", > which may involve replacing older installed ones as well as adding new > packages to the installation. I was suggesting that it would be possible to extend `strict` configuration option for updates. That means with `dnf update *.rpm --strict=0` you would achieve what you have said in this paragraph. Honza -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
