Core DNF Plugins Release Notes ¶

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Core DNF Plugins Release Notes

4.4.1 Release Notes ¶

New features: - reposync: Implement –safe-write-path option (RhBug:1898089)
Bug fixes: - needs-restarting: Catch exception when no systemd unit exists for pid (RhBug:2122587) - post-transaction-actions: Fix ConfigParser.substitute call
Others: - builddep: Avoid using obsolete RPM API - yum-utils: Only depend on python3-dnf, not dnf

Bugs fixed in 4.4.1:

4.4.0 Release Notes ¶

New features: - system-upgrade: Move from extras to core (RhBug:2054235) - system-upgrade: Add –poweroff option to reboot - copr: Switch to reading a copr.vendor.conf file to determine a vendor ID - config-manager: Allow to specify the “main” section
Bug fixes: - system-upgrade: Add support for security filters in offline-upgrade (RhBug:1939975) - needs-restarting: Fix boot time derivation for systems with no rtc (RhBug:2137935) - download: Skip downloading weak deps when install_weak_deps=False - reposync: Documentation update (RhBug:2132383, 2182004)

Bugs fixed in 4.4.0:

4.3.1 Release Notes ¶

Update translations (fix RhBug:2127011)

Bugs fixed in 4.3.1:

Bug 2127011 - dnf-plugins-core show errors when use LANG=es_ES-UTF-8

4.3.0 Release Notes ¶

copr: Guess EPEL chroots for CentOS Stream (RhBug:2058471)
Update translations
Bug fixes: - builddep: Warning when using macros with source rpms (RhBug:2077820) - [repomanage] Modules are used only when they belong to target repo (RhBug:2072441) - Update documentation for config-manager used with subscription-manager (RhBug:2075366)

Bugs fixed in 4.3.0:

4.2.1 Release Notes ¶

Skip all non rpm tsi for transaction_action plugins (rhbug:2023652)

Bugs fixed in 4.2.1:

Bug 2023652 - KeyError after upgrading packages (post-transaction actions)

4.2.0 Release Notes ¶

New features: - repomanage: Add new option –oldonly (RhBug:2034736,2058676)

Bugs fixed in 4.2.0:

4.1.0 Release Notes ¶

New features: - Add a new subpackage with modulesync command. The command downloads packages from modules and/or creates a repository with modular data. (RhBug:1868047) - [groups-manager] Use full NEVRA (not only name) for matching packages (RhBug:2013633) - [repoclosure] Print counts of missing dependencies
Bug fixes: - [reposync] Do not stop downloading packages on the first error (RhBug:2009894) - [versionlock] Fix: Multiple package-name-spec arguments don’t lock correctly (RhBug:2001039) (RhBug:2013324) - [versionlock] Update documentation for adding specifi version (RhBug:2013332)

Bugs fixed in 4.1.0:

4.0.24 Release Notes ¶

Bug fixes: - [copr] on CentOS Stream, enable centos stream chroot instead of not epel 8 (RhBug:1994154) - [copr] Avoid using deprecated function distro.linux_distribution() (RhBug:2011550) - [copr] don’t traceback on empty lines in /etc/os-release

Bugs fixed in 4.0.24:

4.0.23 Release Notes ¶

New features: - [leaves] Show strongly connected components
Bug fixes: - [needs-restarting] Fix wrong boot time (RhBug:1960437) - [playground] Disable playground command, since it doesn’t work

Bugs fixed in 4.0.23:

Bug 1960437 - needs-restarting calculating wrong boot time

4.0.22 Release Notes ¶

New features: - [repomanage] Allow running only with metadata - [repomanage] Enhance documentation (RhBug:1898293)
Bug fixes: - [versionlock] Locking obsoleted package does not make the obsoleter unavailable (RhBug:1957280) - [versionlock] Work correctly with packages with minorbump part of release (RhBug:1961217)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.22:

4.0.21 Release Notes ¶

Add missing command line option to documentation
doc: add packages to needs-restarting conf
Set blacklist subcommand as deprecated
Bug fixes: - Bugs fixed (RhBug:1914827,1916782)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.21:

Bug 1914827 - [RHEL8] dnf reposync implicitly downloads source rpms in spite of no –source option

4.0.20 Release Notes ¶

Bug fixes: - Removed dependency on dnf.yum.misc.Checksum class (RhBug:1935465)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.20:

Bug 1935465 - Cached rpms in dnf uses historic yum checksum code instead of librepo’s checksum

4.0.19 Release Notes ¶

copr: allow only 2 arguments with copr enable command
[needs-restarting] fix -r in nspawn containers (RhBug:1913962,1914251)
Add –gpgcheck option to reposync (RhBug:1856818) (RhBug:1856818)
Re-introduce yum-groups-manager functionality (RhBug:1826016)
[repomanage] Don’t use cached metadata (RhBug:1899852)
[needs-restarting] add -s to list services (RhBug:1772939) (RhBug:1772939)
New features: - Add –gpgcheck option to reposync (RhBug:1856818) (RhBug:1856818) - Re-introduce yum-groups-manager functionality (RhBug:1826016)
Bug fixes: - [repomanage] Don’t use cached metadata (RhBug:1899852) - [repomanage] Fix ordering of modular stream versions - [needs-restarting] add -s to list services (RhBug:1772939) (RhBug:1772939)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.19:

4.0.18 Release Notes ¶

[needs-restarting] Fix plugin fail if needs-restarting.d does not exist
[needs-restarting] add kernel-rt to reboot list
Fix debug-restore command
[config-manager] enable/disable comma separated pkgs (RhBug:1830530)
[debug] Use standard demands.resolving for transaction handling
[debug] Do not remove install-only packages (RhBug:1844533)
return error when dnf download failed
README: Reference Fedora Weblate instead of Zanata
[reposync] Add latest NEVRAs per stream to download (RhBug: 1833074)
copr: don’t try to list runtime dependencies
Bug fixes: - Bugs fixed (RhBug:1863433)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.18:

4.0.17 Release Notes ¶

[repomanage] Add modular support (RhBug:1804720)
[needs-restarting] add optons using .conf file (RhBug:1810123)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.17:

4.0.16 Release Notes ¶

[versionlock] Take obsoletes into account (RhBug:1627124)
Move args “–set-enabled”, “–set-disabled” from DNF (RhBug:1727882)
Add missing arguments –set-enabled/–set-disabled into error message
Warn when –enablerepo/–disablerepo args were passed (RhBug:1727882)
[copr] add support for enabling/disabling runtime dependencies
[copr] no-liability text to be always printed

Bugs fixed in 4.0.16:

Bug 1727882 - yum-config-manager cannot update repos on RHEL8

4.0.15 Release Notes ¶

Support remote files in dnf builddep
[download] Respect repo priority (RhBug:1800342)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.15:

Bug 1800342 - dnf download and list do not respect repo priority

4.0.14 Release Notes ¶

Fix conflict for dnf download –resolve (RhBug:1787908)
config-manager calls parser error when without options (RhBug:1782822)
Update reposync.py with –norepopath option
Fix: don’t open stdin if versionlock is missing (RhBug:1785563)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.14:

4.0.13 Release Notes ¶

Fix: config_manager respect config file location during save
[reposync] Fix –delete with multiple repos (RhBug:1774103)
Redesign reposync –latest for modular system (RhBug:1775434)
[doc] Skip creating and installing migrate documentation for Python 3+
[config-manager] Allow use of –set-enabled without arguments (RhBug:1679213)
[versionlock] Prevent conflicting/duplicate entries (RhBug:1782052)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.13:

4.0.12 Release Notes ¶

[reposync] Add –urls option (RhBug:1686602)
[versionlock] Add –raw option (RhBug:1645564)
[doc] move manpages for plugins to “dnf-PLUGIN” (RhBug:1706386)
Add new plugin post-transaction-actions (RhBug:967264)
[builddep] Add –skip-unavailable switch (RhBug:1628634)
[versionlock] Don’t apply excludes on @System (RhBug:1726712)
[reposync] Ignore only modular excludes (RhBug:1750273)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.12:

4.0.11 Release Notes ¶

[spec] Specify attributes for ghost file (RhBug: 1754463)
download: add the –debugsource option (RhBug:1637008)
Fix incorrect handling richdeps in buildep (RhBug:1756902)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.11:

4.0.10 Release Notes ¶

debuginfo-install: Update both debuginfo and debugsource for updated package (RhBug:1586084)
copr: Support multilib repofiles (RhBug:1393664)
copr: Fix disable if copr instance has non-default port
copr: Fix repoid when using subdirectories in copr project

Bugs fixed in 4.0.10:

4.0.9 Release Notes ¶

[spec] Rename dnf-utils to yum-utils
[builddep] Report all rpm errors (RhBug:1663619,1658292,1724668)
[config-manager] –setopt: Fix crash with “–save –dump”
[config-manager] –setopt: Add globs support to repoid
[config-manager] –setopt=key=value is applied only to the main config
[config-manager] –setopt and empty list of repositories (RhBug:1702678)
[config-manager] –setopt: Add check for existence of input repositories

Bugs fixed in 4.0.9:

4.0.8 Release Notes ¶

[reposync] Enable timestamp preserving for downloaded data (RhBug:1688537)
[reposync] Download packages from all streams (RhBug:1714788)
Make yum-copr manpage available (RhBug:1673902)
[needs-restarting] Add --reboothint option (RhBug:1192946) (RhBug:1639468)
Set the cost of _dnf_local repo to 500, to make it preferred to normal repos

Bugs fixed in 4.0.8:

4.0.7 Release Notes ¶

Fix: copr disable command traceback (RhBug:1693551)
[doc] state repoid as repo identifier of config-manager (RhBug:1686779)
Fix download of src when not the latest requested (RhBug:1649627)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.7:

Bug 1693551 - Problem with dnf copr disable command

4.0.6 Release Notes ¶

Use improved config parser that preserves order of data
[leaves] Show multiply satisfied dependencies as leaves
[download] Fix downloading an rpm from a URL (RhBug:1678582)
[download] Fix problem with downloading src pkgs (RhBug:1649627)

4.0.4 Release Notes ¶

[download] Do not download src without --source (RhBug:1666648)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.4:

Bug 1666648 - dnf download command downloads also a srpm

4.0.3 Release Notes ¶

Add changelog plugin that is used for viewing package changelogs
New option --metadata-path option for reposync plugin

Bugs fixed in 4.0.3:

Bug 1654529 - dnf versionlock will accept NEVRA forms for additions which it then cannot match when deleting

4.0.2 Release Notes ¶

Added repodif command
copr: fix enabling Rawhide repository
Add needs-restarting CLI shim
[reposync] Fix traceback with –quiet option
[versionlock] Accept more pkgspec forms

Bugs fixed in 4.0.2:

4.0.0 Release Notes ¶

Enhance documentation
[repoclosure] check every –pkg attribute separately
[repoclosure] Now accepts nevra as a argument of –pkg option
[reposync] enhancements (RhBug:1550063,1582152,1550064,1405789,1598068)
package-cleanup: remove –oldkernels
Download only packages with unique NEVRAs (RhBug:1612874)

Bugs fixed in 4.0.0:

3.0.4 Release Notes ¶

[copr] Huge upgrade of copr plugin
[spec] Disable building python2 modules on Fedora 30+

Bugs fixed in 3.0.4:

3.0.3 Release Notes ¶

[download] new option –alldeps to download all requirements

3.0.2 Release Notes ¶

Bugs fixed in 3.0.2:

3.0.1 Release Notes ¶

Enhanced documentation

Bugs fixed in 3.0.1:

2.1.5 Release Notes ¶

Bugs fixed in 2.1.5:

Bug 1498426 - dnf download does not download RPMs in fedora rawhide container image

2.1.4 Release Notes ¶

Added four new options for list subcommand of copr plugin

Bugs fixed in 2.1.4:

Bug 1476834 - [abrt] dnf: arch(): config.py:908:arch:TypeError: unhashable type: ‘list’

2.1.3 Release Notes ¶

Bugs fixed in 2.1.3:

2.1.2 Release Notes ¶

DNF copr Plugin doesn’t crash anymore in some circumstances.
DNF debuginfo-install Plugin doesn’t install any additional subpackages anymore, previously it was trying to get all dependent packages recursively and install debuginfo packages for them.

Bugs fixed in 2.1.2:

Bug 1322599 - debuginfo-install installs needless packages

2.1.1 Release Notes ¶

It introduces new behavior of Versionlock plugin where it doesn’t apply any excludes in non-transactional operations like repoquery, list, info, etc.

Bugs fixed in 2.1.1:

Bug 1458446 - Probably a Type-0 in package-cleanup that is inside dnf-utils.

2.1.0 Release Notes ¶

Additional subpackage in 2.1.0:

Added new subpackage dnf-utils that provides binaries originaly provided by yum-utils.

Bugs fixed in 2.1.0:

Bug 1381917 - add aliases for each of yum-utils binaries

2.0.0 Release Notes ¶

Added DEBUG plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added LEAVES plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added LOCAL plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added MIGRATE plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added NEEDS RESTARTING plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added REPOCLOSURE plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added REPOGRAPH plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added REPOMANAGE plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added SHOW LEAVES plugin from dnf-plugins-extras
Added VERSIONLOCK plugin from dnf-plugins-extras

1.1.0 Release Notes ¶

Updated translations
DNF builddep Plugin doesn’t check GPG key of src.rpm anymore
DNF builddep Plugin installs dependencies by provides
DNF download Plugin with --resolve now downloads all needed packages for transaction

Bugs fixed in 1.1.0:

1.0.2 Release Notes ¶

Newly implemented DNF download Plugin options --url and --urlprotocol.

Bugs fixed in 1.0.2:

Bug 1250115 - RFE: dnf download –url

1.0.1 Release Notes ¶

Minor changes in builddep: print errors from RPM SPEC parser

1.0.0 Release Notes ¶

Repoquery and protected_packages plugins were integrated into DNF.

Bugs fixed in 1.0.0:

0.1.21 Release Notes ¶

Bugfixes, internal improvements.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.21:

0.1.20 Release Notes ¶

Small fixes in COPR plugin, added get_reposdir function to dnfpluginscore lib.

0.1.18 Release Notes ¶

Changed COPR server adress to the new one.

0.1.17 Release Notes ¶

Added configuration file for DNF debuginfo-install Plugin.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.17:

0.1.16 Release Notes ¶

Documented DNF repoquery options --unneeded and --recent.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.16:

0.1.15 Release Notes ¶

Newly implemented DNF download Plugin options --resolve and --debuginfo.

Improved the start-up time of bash completion.

Reviewed documentation.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.15:

0.1.14 Release Notes ¶

Bugs fixed in 0.1.14:

0.1.13 Release Notes ¶

Kickstart plugin has been moved to dnf plugins extras as a separate python-dnf-plugins-extras-kickstart package.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.13:

0.1.12 Release Notes ¶

Added support of globs to --whatrequires and --whatprovides options.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.12:

Bug 1249073 - dnf repoquery does not support wildcards in –whatrequires

0.1.11 Release Notes ¶

Option --arch now accepts more than one architecture.

Introduced select options --available, --extras, --installed, --upgrades.

Added ability to use weak dependencies query options in combination with --tree switch.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.11:

0.1.10 Release Notes ¶

DNF builddep Plugin was extended by newly added options --srpm and --spec for specifying the input file.

Implemented remove command in DNF copr Plugin plugin.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.10:

0.1.9 Release Notes ¶

DNF repoquery was extended by newly added select options --srpm, --alldeps and query option --tree.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.9:

0.1.8 Release Notes ¶

This release fixes only packaging issues.

0.1.7 Release Notes ¶

All occurrences of repoid option were replaced by repo to unified repository specification in plugins.

DNF builddep Plugin now accepts packages from repositories as arguments and allows users to define RPM macros used during spec files parsing via -D option.

Three new options were added to DNF repoquery: latest-limit, unsatisfied and resolve.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.7:

0.1.6 Release Notes ¶

Newly implemented DNF config-manager Plugin plugin.

DNF repoquery now accepts <pkg-spec>.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.6:

0.1.5 Release Notes ¶

DNF builddep Plugin accepts also nosrc.rpm package.

DNF repoquery adds –list switch to show files the package contains.

Bugs fixed in 0.1.5: