On 28 May 2016 16:54, "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox@bzb.us> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:20 PM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm not entirely certain of the answer to that, though it should be quick to test when I get to a machine later.
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>> But in terms of efficiencies reinstall does a full reinstall of the package, including download and and scripts. Doing mark installed just tells dnf what the world is meant to look like.
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> I checked with "dnf autoremove" and a re-install appears to mark it correctly.  I subsequently following the instructions
> in the F24 release notes.  
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> The reason I had done "dnf reinstall" was that I knew that command and there were no instructions in the bug report
> on how to fix the problem.  When someone was kind enough to reply here with the link to the F24 release notes, which had the
> instructions, I put them in the bug report to give people a better chance to find them.  Most likely, you aren't going to
> be looking at F24 release notes, until you plan on upgrading to F24.  That doesn't help the people who are currently affected
> by this using F23.
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Huh? The bug has multiple comments referring to dnf mark install to set a package to user installed (eg comment 4) and the actual bug text says to call dnf mark install ...