Bug 24793

Summary:	pkcon won't recognize package names with version numbers included
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	Jens Knutson <jens.knutson>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Jens Knutson 2009-10-29 12:18:27 UTC

When removing packages (or installing or anything else, for that matter), pkcon refuses to recognize any package with a version name attached, e.g.:
"docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-8.fc12.noarch"  or  "docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-8" are not recognized as valid package names.

Yum, on the other hand, supports this just fine.


Why anyone would care:
It's a PITA to copy & paste/pipe things from yum.log to select packages one wants to remove

Comment 1 Jens Knutson 2009-10-29 14:07:02 UTC

I appear to be mistaken.  I could have sworn that Yum used to handle this, but I just tried it again now, and it failed... strange!

If this is one of those "unfixable" cases due to the nature of rpm naming standards or whatever, feel free to close this.  Otherwise maybe it could live on as an enhancement request?

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2018-08-21 15:52:24 UTC

We moved the upstream bugtracker to GitHub a long time ago. If this issue still affects you please re-create the issue here: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues
 
Sorry for the impersonal message, and fingers crossed your issue no longer happens. Thanks.

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