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dnfdragora is a dnf frontend based on libyui abstraction
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Recognize and handle the installation of SRPMs #43

Closed xenithorb closed 7 years ago

xenithorb commented 7 years ago

Often when I want to hack on a build that I come across I download the SRPM and run rpm -i <SRPM> as a normal user. This of course installs the files in the proper build directories in ~/rpmbuild/. dnfdragora seems to have been built with the predisposition that all rpms are to be installed as system packages, because presently it asks for root permissions when I click on an SRPM.

Expected results:

  1. When processing an SRPM with dnfdragora (whether clicking on one or otherwise) it should install it as a normal user and have the same effect as rpm -i.
Conan-Kudo commented 7 years ago

DNF itself doesn't support "installing" source packages. This is a restriction in dnfdragora that we inherit from DNF. Please file a bug with DNF upstream.

xenithorb commented 7 years ago

I know but you're supporting the association to *.rpm files, why not handle this anyway?

Conan-Kudo commented 7 years ago

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to support it, but dnfdragora is a high-level package manager. If we were to support it, we'd want it to trigger the installation of build dependencies along with installing the source files in the right place. For that to work, DNF needs to support processing source RPMs. It currently does not.