On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 07:29:54PM +0200, Igor Raits wrote:
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On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 18:42 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Other possibility is to modify DNF to not touch such packages. Not
> sure
> if that would be better. Or is there already some functionality which
> would exclude the package from dnf transaction, something like:
>
> ~~~
> # This package won't be installed, but will obsolete other packages
> Provides: libsolv-self-destruct-pkg()
>
> ~~~
>
> we use in fedora-obsolete-packages?
Since they do not block the upgrades, does it really matter? However, I
agree that DNF removing packages that are not present in upgrade repo
and blocking the upgrade, should be removed automatically.
That's the distinction between upgrade and distro-sync.
-- Petr