Thank God for yum-deprecated :-)

[Jan Zelený]

On 18. 7. 2015 at 17:59:49, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I see that dnf, in its infinite wisdom, has classified
> ignoring packages it can't find as a bug, therefore
> if you say
> 
> dnf install `cat f22-missing.txt`
> 
> to install as much stuff as possible in your new
> f22 as you used to have in f20, it will find the
> very first missing rpm (and ONLY the first), tell
> you it isn't in the repos, and quit.
> 
> See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224485
> 
> So you delete it from the list and try again, which
> let's you find the 2nd one, repeat for several weeks,
> or discover there is a yum-deprecated out there and
> run:
> 
> yum-deprecated install `cat f22-missing.txt`
> 
> which will actually install everything it can and
> ignore the ones it can't find, thus saving you
> many hours of fixing the list or installing
> one package at a time with dnf.

IIRC this feature is on the roadmap and should be implemented in a matter of 
weeks.

Thanks
Jan