On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 08:40:05 +0000 Russel Winder <russel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Advice required… > > I have four installations of Rawhide. Three of them seem fine, > consistent, and as expected: all packages except the kernel installed > once and up to date – I keep multiple kernels for fairly obvious > reasons. > > However one machine has a large number of not fully upgraded packages. > The older package is emboldened by dnf and marked @rawhide. The newer > package is not emboldened and is marked @System. dnf seems entirely > happy that this is a consistent situation with no further action > required. Personally I would suggest that dnf is, well, wrong. As an > example: > > ImageMagick.x86_64 6.9.3.0- > 4.fc26 @rawhide > ImageMagick.x86_64 6.9.3.0- > 5.fc26 @System > > Even on the consistent systems some installed only once from the > rawhide repository are marked @System, I am not sure why, I would have > thought it should be marked @rawhide. > > I could manually remove all the old @rawhide packages leaving the up- > to-date @System packages, but this seems wrong on so many fronts. > Sufficiently many that I thought I would become a supplicant here > seeking advice. > > I am hoping that someone will show up my ignorance of the > sophistication of dnf and tell me the one liner that allows dnf to fix > everything. My fear is that dnf has just ###### things up and is > incapable of sorting it out. It sounds very much like there was a transaction in the past that didn't complete for whatever reason ( power lost, reboot, etc). You can try looking for that transaction in 'dnf history list' (it will have a big E next to it for error) and then doing a 'dnf history redo N' where N is the number of the transaction. I've had mixed luck with that. sometimes it works, other times packages have changed too much and it refuses. If that doesn't work, then yes, you will need to remove all the older packages with: 'dnf remove --duplicates' Hope that helps, kevin
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