DNF is completly unable to act with local packages

Honza Šilhan jsilhan at redhat.com
Fri Nov 13 11:12:16 UTC 2015


> From: "Honza Šilhan" <jsilhan at redhat.com>
> > From: "Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt at gmail.com>
> > If an _upgrade_ introduces new sub-packages or new dependencies, you
> > need a method that can install those new packages *and* update older
> > installed ones at the same time. Running "rpm -U *.rpm" is like asking
> > RPM to "upgrade the installation to the packages specified by *.rpm",
> > which may involve replacing older installed ones as well as adding new
> > packages to the installation.
> 
> I was suggesting that it would be possible to extend `strict` configuration
> option
> for updates. That means with `dnf update *.rpm --strict=0` you would achieve
> what you
> have said in this paragraph.

I made a mistake. It should be this command line `dnf update *.rpm --setopt=strict=0`.

Honza


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