I'm not sure if this should go to the DNF lists or here, as I'm not sure
who maintains the DNF COPR plugin. Posting here since I'm already
subscribed :)
Peter Hutterer is running a libinput user study
(
http://libinput-whot.rhcloud.com/) and using COPR to distribute the
testing software.
I decided to try using dnf's copr plugin to install it rather than the
curl/yum commands in Peter's installation instructions, but ran into
some usability problems with it.
* First usability problem:
- "sudo dnf copr --help" just reported unknown command, without
suggesting installing "dnf-plugins-core"
- I vaguely remembered a previous mention of plugins, and found the
right package via "yum search dnf"
* Second usability problem:
- The following command sequence initially didn't work:
$ sudo dnf copr enable whot/libinput-userstudy
$ sudo dnf install libinput-userstudy
- there was no indication that metadata for the new repo had been
retrieved, and the second command reported "unknown package"
- "dnf makecache" didn't help either
- today, running "dnf repolist" triggered a metadata update, and now the
install command works
Is it possible there's an issue with "copr enable" not triggering a
metadata update for the newly enable repo?
Note that I'm generally using a mixture of dnf and yum commands on this
system, since I'm only using dnf for the COPR plugin.
Regards,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services
Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane
HSS Provisioning Architect