-- to signify the end of command line options not accepted by dnf CLI any more

[thozza]

DNF4, as many other Bash utilities and command line tools, accepted -- to signify the end of command line options, after which only positional arguments will follow.

We used this in many of our scripts which take list of packages as an argument and pass it internally to dnf, so that user's of the script can't sneak in any CLI options as a package name. This regression has a high potential to break existing scripts that call dnf.

$ sudo dnf install -- gcc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:52 ago on Po 11. listopadu 2024, 09:07:19.
Package gcc-14.2.1-3.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

$ ls -l /usr/bin/dnf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 15. srp 02.00 /usr/bin/dnf -> dnf-3

$ rpm -q dnf
dnf-4.21.1-1.fc40.noarch

[root@0552a5d51b45 /]# dnf install -- gcc
Unknown argument "--" for command "install". Add "--help" for more information about the arguments.

[root@0552a5d51b45 /]# ls -l /usr/bin/dnf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 20 00:00 /usr/bin/dnf -> dnf5

[root@0552a5d51b45 /]# rpm -q dnf5
dnf5-5.2.6.2-1.fc41.x86_64