I'm seeing a number of people confused by this message, usually followed by
some actual transaction error.
I _think_ this is happening because these packages are in comps but do not
exist in the distro. Is this correct? I tried to search for it, but the
error message is _very_ common in ... well, people who are asking about it
because of what I said. (For example:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/542877/2511)
I found
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1538346 but not much of
a general resolution. It does note that one issue is arch-specific
packages (which maybe just need "arch=..." in comps?).
I think we should:
1. Have a schedule standarded task to remove any packages listed but
non-existent after branch from rawhide. (I assume a Rel-Eng task?)
2. Have DNF make this message less scary. Maybe even move down to a debug
message and not show it by default — I am not seeing a situation where
they're useful to _most_ end-users.
Anything I'm missing?
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader