Select packages missing from repo

[Alex]

Hi,
I have a fedora28 machine that was upgraded from fedora25 and having
some problems with some packages showing as unavailable from the repo.

perl-Encode is one such package. On one machine "dnf info perl-Encode"
shows the package is available, but on others it is not.

# dnf info perl-Encode
Last metadata expiration check: 2:30:58 ago on Fri 20 Jul 2018 12:28:10 PM EDT.
Error: No matching Packages to list

What could cause this? I've tried running "dnf clean all" then
re-running the dnf info command with no change.

The following is the [fedora] section of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo:

# cat fedora.repo
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasev...
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
repo_gpgcheck=0
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

What more can be done to troubleshoot this?

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/20/2018 12:06 PM, Alex wrote:
>  What more can be done to troubleshoot this? 
Compare the fedora.repo on a machine that finds it with one that 
doesn't.  There may be a significant difference, although I've no idea 
what it would be.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/20/2018 12:06 PM, Alex wrote:
>  What more can be done to troubleshoot this? 
Try running "dnf info -v --refresh perl-Encode".

[Alex]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:
>  On 07/20/2018 12:06 PM, Alex wrote:
> >
> > What more can be done to troubleshoot this?
>
>
>  Try running "dnf info -v --refresh perl-Encode". 
It appears to make no difference. I also removed entirely the
/var/cache/dnf directory and tried again. The modules.yaml file is
missing, but it's also not present on a system that does succeed in
finding this package.

# dnf info -v --refresh perl-Encode
Loaded plugins: builddep, config-manager, copr, debug,
debuginfo-install, download, generate_completion_cache,
needs-restarting, playground, repoclosure, repograph, repomanage,
reposync, system-upgrade
DNF version: 2.7.5
cachedir: /var/cache/dnf
reviving: 'updates' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
updates: using metadata from Fri 20 Jul 2018 01:30:46 PM EDT.
reviving: 'fedora' can be revived - metalink checksums match.
not found deltainfo for: Fedora 28 - x86_64
not found updateinfo for: Fedora 28 - x86_64
fedora: using metadata from Wed 25 Apr 2018 12:27:32 AM EDT.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Sat 21 Jul 2018 01:35:42 PM EDT.
Missing file *modules.yaml in metadata cache dir:
/var/cache/dnf/updates-8bd9ef368505a5fd
Missing file *modules.yaml in metadata cache dir:
/var/cache/dnf/fedora-f21308f6293b3270
Error: No matching Packages to list

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/21/2018 10:37 AM, Alex wrote:
>  It appears to make no difference. I also removed entirely the
>  /var/cache/dnf directory and tried again. The modules.yaml file is
>  missing, but it's also not present on a system that does succeed in
>  finding this package. 
The modules.yaml is for the new modules feature that's coming.

What does "dnf search perl-encode" give you?

[Alex]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:
>  On 07/21/2018 10:37 AM, Alex wrote:
> >
> > It appears to make no difference. I also removed entirely the
> > /var/cache/dnf directory and tried again. The modules.yaml file is
> > missing, but it's also not present on a system that does succeed in
> > finding this package.
>
>
>  The modules.yaml is for the new modules feature that's coming.
>
>  What does "dnf search perl-encode" give you? 
One of the previous writers on this thread cut that part out of my initial post:

# dnf search perl-Encode
Last metadata expiration check: 1:46:53 ago on Sun 22 Jul 2018 07:46:06 AM EDT.
========================================================== Name
Matched: perl-Encode
==========================================================
perl-Encode-JIS2K.x86_64 : JIS X 0212 (aka JIS 2000) Encodings
perl-Encode-devel.i686 : Perl Encode Module Generator
perl-Encode-devel.x86_64 : Perl Encode Module Generator
perl-Encode-Detect.x86_64 : Encode::Encoding subclass that detects the
encoding of data
perl-Encode-Locale.noarch : Determine the locale encoding
perl-Encode-ISO2022.x86_64 : ISO/IEC 2022 character encoding scheme
perl-Encode-HanExtra.x86_64 : Extra sets of Chinese encodings
perl-Encode-IMAPUTF7.noarch : Process the special UTF-7 variant required by IMAP
perl-Encode-JISX0213.x86_64 : JIS X 0213 encoding
perl-Encode-Newlines.noarch : Normalize line ending sequences
perl-Encode-JP-Mobile.x86_64 : Japan mobile phone Shift_JIS (CP932) /
UTF-8 encoding
perl-Encode-EUCJPASCII.x86_64 : EucJP-ascii - An eucJP-open mapping
perl-Encode-DoubleEncodedUTF8.noarch : Fix double encoded UTF-8 bytes
to the correct one

It's missing from all three machines that I've upgraded from fedora25
recently. It appears correctly on another machine as normal on another
machine I upgraded.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 07/22/2018 06:36 AM, Alex wrote:
>  One of the previous writers on this thread cut that part out of my
> initial post:
>  
>  # dnf search perl-Encode 
This was not in your initial post.

Check your dnf.conf file and see if you have an exclude line in there.

[Alex]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote:
>  On 07/22/2018 06:36 AM, Alex wrote:
> >
> > One of the previous writers on this thread cut that part out of my initial
> > post:
> >
> > # dnf search perl-Encode
>
>  This was not in your initial post. 
Sorry, it was "dnf info perl-Encode", but same effect.

>  Check your dnf.conf file and see if you have an exclude line in
> there. 
That was it, thanks. Must have added it too long ago to have
remembered, and also don't remember why it would have been added. Must
have been a problem we were having back with fedora25.

Thanks,
Alex

[John Pilkington]

On 22/07/18 20:56, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>  On 07/22/2018 06:36 AM, Alex wrote:
> > One of the previous writers on this thread cut that part out of my 
> > initial post:
> >
> > # dnf search perl-Encode
>  
>  This was not in your initial post.
>  
>  Check your dnf.conf file and see if you have an exclude line in there. 
In f27 I have recently replaced yumex-dnf by dnfdragora.  I'm not yet 
familiar with its current idiosyncracies, but I notice that perl-Encode 
is not marked as installed, while other packages are.

I tried dnf install perl-Encode, and was told that it was already 
installed.  rpm -qa sees it too.   Perhaps suggests all is not quite 
right.  There are several other perl-Encode* packages.