On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 09:24:15PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> I just got some very strange behavior from dnf:
> 
> $ sudo dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:26 ago on Sat 05 May 2018 09:13:56 PM 
> PDT.
> Dependencies resolved.
> ================================================================================
>  Package            Arch         Version                   Repository      
> Size
> ===============================================================================$
> Upgrading:
>  vim-common         x86_64       2:8.0.1788-1.fc28         updates        6.4 
> M
> Removing:
>  vim-enhanced       x86_64       2:8.0.1763-1.fc28         @updates       2.9 
> M
> 
> Somehow dnf's solution was to upgrade vim-enhanced and them
> immediately remove it.  How does that make sense?
> 
> This was triggered by the following problem with the repo:
> 
>  Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package 
> vim-enhanced-2$
> 8.0.1763-1.fc28.x86_64
>   - nothing provides perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.26.2) needed by 
> vim-enhanced-2:8.0.1$
> 88-1.fc28.x86_64
>  Problem 2: package vim-enhanced-2:8.0.1763-1.fc28.x86_64 requires vim-common 
> =
> 2:8.0.1763-1.fc28, but none of the providers can be installed
>   - cannot install both vim-common-2:8.0.1788-1.fc28.x86_64 and 
> vim-common-2:8.$
> .1763-1.fc28.x86_64
>   - problem with installed package vim-enhanced-2:8.0.1763-1.fc28.x86_64
>   - cannot install the best update candidate for package 
> vim-common-2:8.0.1763-$
> .fc28.x86_64
>   - nothing provides perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.26.2) needed by 
> vim-enhanced-2:8.0.1$
> 88-1.fc28.x86_64
> 
> but I don't see how it makes sense at all.

It seems like vim-enhanced depends on perl 5.26.2 but it hasn't been
pushed to stable.

-- 
Felix M. Cobos
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