On 07/25/2017 01:30 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Almost the very first thing I do on a new install is to erase bash-completion, and it is indeed not installed:
tomh> rpm -q bash-completion package bash-completion is not installed
So why did the dnf-automatic run I have in cron tell me this last night:
Delta RPMs reduced 80.7 MB of updates to 38.6 MB (52.1% saved) The following updates were downloaded on 'tomh': ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: mod_http2 x86_64 1.10.7-1.fc24 updates 148 k Upgrading: GraphicsMagick x86_64 1.3.26-3.fc24 updates 1.4 M GraphicsMagick-doc noarch 1.3.26-3.fc24 updates 973 k httpd x86_64 2.4.27-3.fc24 updates 1.3 M httpd-filesystem noarch 2.4.27-3.fc24 updates 27 k httpd-manual noarch 2.4.27-3.fc24 updates 2.3 M httpd-tools x86_64 2.4.27-3.fc24 updates 89 k icedtea-web x86_64 1.7-1.fc24 updates 1.8 M java-1.8.0-openjdk x86_64 1:1.8.0.141-1.b16.fc24 updates 233 k java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel x86_64 1:1.8.0.141-1.b16.fc24 updates 9.8 M java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless x86_64 1:1.8.0.141-1.b16.fc24 updates 32 M librsvg2 x86_64 2.40.18-1.fc24 updates 133 k librsvg2-devel x86_64 2.40.18-1.fc24 updates 52 k qt5-qtwebengine x86_64 5.6.3-0.1.20170712gitee719ad313e564.fc24 updates 31 M Skipping packages with conflicts: (add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade): bash-completion noarch 1:2.4-1.fc24 updates 269 k
Do you have "install_weak_deps=false" in your /etc/dnf/dnf.conf?
These bewildering, bizarre and confusing "conflict messages" are dnf's poor way to tell it did not install a packages with weak dependency :(
Ralf