Bug 18563

Summary:	Option "auto-orphans" are listed in urpmi --help
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marc Lattemann <marc.lattemann>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	5	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	urpmi	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Marc Lattemann 2016-05-27 23:31:19 CEST

the Option "auto-orphans" is listed in urpmi --help. 

urpmi --auto-orphans seems to be an "valid" option since not "unknown option" is shown, but without any function.


Compare:
[root@MediaCenter ~]# urpmi --xxx
Unknown option: xxx
--> help message is shown

and 
[root@MediaCenter ~]# urpmi --auto-orphans
--> help message is shown

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-05-28 09:52:55 CEST

It seems a valid option when combined with installing something (what urpmi is for!) e.g. like this:


[root@cldrn_64 marja]# LC_ALL=C urpmi --auto-update --auto-orphans
medium "Core Release (RedHD21)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree Release (RedHD211)" is up-to-date
medium "Core 32bit Release (RedHD231)" is up-to-date
medium "Nonfree 32bit Release (RedHD236)" is up-to-date
^C[root@cldrn_64 marja]#

(I stopped it, because I didn't want my orphans to be removed!)

Would you like to try?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2016-05-28 10:07:09 CEST

It seems to work fine and do what is says in the help, though as marja mentioned it only acts upon a package installation:

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# LC_ALL=C urpmi --test null --auto-orphans
writing /var/lib/rpm/installed-through-deps.list
The following orphan packages will be removed.
  lib64iodbc2-3.52.10-1.mga6.x86_64
  lib64dc1394-devel-2.2.4-1.mga6.x86_64
  lib64nut-devel-0.0.675-8.mga6.x86_64
[...]
  lib64freealut-devel-1.1.0-13.mga6.x86_64
  lib64usb1.0-devel-1.0.20-3.mga6.x86_64

installing null-12-52.mga6.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...                     ##########################################################################################################################################################

Installation is possible

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(I guess it doesn't try the uninstall with the `--test` argument)

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-05-28 10:13:38 CEST

Thanks, Rémi, I had forgotten about "--test" 

@ Marc

I feel very much tempted to close this report as invalid, because urpmi is for installing, and I don't think it is a good idea to clutter the help page with additional info for every argument that won't work when nothing gets (test-)installed. "urpmi --test" returns the help page, too.

Comment 4 Marc Lattemann 2016-05-28 10:19:12 CEST

I'm fine with closing it. When the option has a function, it's not a bug ;)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID