Re: dnf list --showduplicates shows a lot of double entries

[Honza Silhan]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Joachim Backes
 wrote:
> On 03/17/17 12:38, Honza Silhan wrote:
> > # yum-deprecated  list --showduplicates -q | wc -l
> > 73450
> >
> > # dnf list --showduplicates -q | wc -l
> > 76411
> >
> > vs
> >
> > # yum-deprecated  list -q | wc -l
> > 56101
> >
> > # dnf list -q | wc -l
> > 55966
> >
> > (counts differs because different metadata)
> >
> > seems like it does something in both DNF and yum. Even after checking
> > the output they look the same. IFAIK it should show all versions of
> > the same package name instead of just highest.
> >
> > I am not sure what are you trying to achieve but I would recommend you
> > to use `dnf repoquery` instead. E.g. for showing duplicates on the
> > system: `dnf repoquery --installed --duplicates` or `dnf check
> > --duplicates`.
> >
> > Honza
>
> Hi Honza,
>
> I think the problem has been solved:
>
> Using "dnf list installed --showduplicates" generated another output without
> the issues I mentioned.
>
> I did not know that the "installed" option was not the default, it seems
> that "available" was the default, so that output (please try
> dnf list available --showduplicates).

Hi, yeah by default "dnf list" outputs all packages (installed and
available) combined with --showduplicates you get a lot of records for
the same package name and that's expected behavior.

Honza
> > Hi,
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Joachim Backes
> >  wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > dnf list --showduplicates
> > >
> > > shows a lot of duplicate entries, with origin fedora and commandline, for
> > > example of the package yelp:
> > >
> > > dnf list --showduplicates|grep yelp
> > > yelp.x86_64                          2:3.22.0-1.fc25 @@commandline
> > > yelp-libs.x86_64                     2:3.22.0-1.fc25 @@commandline
> > > yelp-xsl.noarch                      3.20.1-1.fc25 @@commandline
> > > yelp.x86_64                          2:3.22.0-1.fc25 @@commandline
> > > yelp.x86_64                          2:3.22.0-1.fc25            fedora
> > > yelp-devel.i686                      2:3.22.0-1.fc25            fedora
> > > yelp-devel.x86_64                    2:3.22.0-1.fc25            fedora
> > > yelp-libs.i686                       2:3.22.0-1.fc25            fedora
> > > yelp-libs.x86_64                     2:3.22.0-1.fc25 @@commandline
> > > yelp-libs.x86_64                     2:3.22.0-1.fc25            fedora
> > > yelp-tools.noarch                    3.18.0-3.fc25              fedora
> > > yelp-xsl.noarch                      3.20.1-1.fc25 @@commandline
> > > yelp-xsl.noarch                      3.20.1-1.fc25              fedora
> > >
> > > Is this an known dnf issue, or how to get rid of this annoying effect?
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Joachim Backes
> > >
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