On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 07:33 +0200, Felix M. Cobos wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 09:24:15PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> > I just got some very strange behavior from dnf:
> >
> > $ sudo dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:26 ago on Sat 05 May 2018
> > 09:13:56 PM PDT.
> > Dependencies resolved.
> > ===================================================================
> > =============
> >  Package            Arch         Version                   Reposito
> > ry      Size
> > ===================================================================
> > ============$
> > Upgrading:
> >  vim-common         x86_64       2:8.0.1788-
> > 1.fc28         updates        6.4 M
> > Removing:
> >  vim-enhanced       x86_64       2:8.0.1763-
> > 1.fc28         @updates       2.9 M
> >
> > Somehow dnf's solution was to upgrade vim-enhanced and them
> > immediately remove it.  How does that make sense?
> >
> > This was triggered by the following problem with the repo:
> >
> >  Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package
> > vim-enhanced-2$
> > 8.0.1763-1.fc28.x86_64
> >   - nothing provides perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.26.2) needed by vim-
> > enhanced-2:8.0.1$
> > 88-1.fc28.x86_64
> >  Problem 2: package vim-enhanced-2:8.0.1763-1.fc28.x86_64 requires
> > vim-common =
> > 2:8.0.1763-1.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
> >   - cannot install both vim-common-2:8.0.1788-1.fc28.x86_64 and
> > vim-common-2:8.$
> > .1763-1.fc28.x86_64
> >   - problem with installed package vim-enhanced-2:8.0.1763-
> > 1.fc28.x86_64
> >   - cannot install the best update candidate for package vim-
> > common-2:8.0.1763-$
> > .fc28.x86_64
> >   - nothing provides perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.26.2) needed by vim-
> > enhanced-2:8.0.1$
> > 88-1.fc28.x86_64
> >
> > but I don't see how it makes sense at all.
>
> It seems like vim-enhanced depends on perl 5.26.2 but it hasn't been
> pushed to stable.

if so, (you need some packages from updates-testing to complete dnf
upgrade)  you can quickly workaround with [1] :

[1]
dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing --enablerepo=updates-testing vim-
common


--
Sérgio M. B.

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