automatic: Fix detecting releasever_minor

When running dnf-automatic in RHEL 10.0 where releasever_minor should
default to "0", releasever_minor variable was incorrectly detected as
undefined. That led to expanding a metalink for an EPEL repository to
a wrong URL.

The cause was a bad logic in updating the release, releasever_major,
and releasever_minor triplet in dnf.cli.cli.Cli._read_conf_file():
Setting release invalidates releasever_major and releasever_minor. At
the same time for backward compatibilty detected release only contains
the major number.

This bug did not manifest in "dnf upgrade" command because "dnf"
program does not explicitly construct dnf.Base() before calling
_read_conf_file(). That is dnf-automtic first detected releasever=10
and releasever_minor=0 when calling _setup_default_conf() via
dnf.Base(). But then _read_conf_file() called by dnf-automatic set
releasever again to 10, that rewrote releasever_minor to None and
then _read_conf_file() set releasever_minor to releasever_minor, i.e
to None.

This patch does not change the code flow to minimize regressions.
Instead it saves the original releasever_minor value to be able to
default to it again.

Resolve: #2259
This commit is contained in:
Petr Písař 2025-07-28 17:25:09 +02:00 committed by Evan Goode
parent 2a5873202f
commit b7eb2e399c
2 changed files with 18 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -1018,9 +1018,13 @@ class Cli(object):
if arg is not None:
return arg
return None
# Setting conf.releasever rewrites conf.releasever_major and
# conf.releasever_minor. Copy them for later use.
old_releasever_major = conf.releasever_major
old_releasever_minor = conf.releasever_minor
conf.releasever = or_else(releasever, conf.releasever)
conf.releasever_major = or_else(releasever_major, det_major, conf.releasever_major)
conf.releasever_minor = or_else(releasever_minor, det_minor, conf.releasever_minor)
conf.releasever_major = or_else(releasever_major, det_major, old_releasever_major)
conf.releasever_minor = or_else(releasever_minor, det_minor, old_releasever_minor)
if conf.releasever is None:
logger.warning(_("Unable to detect release version (use '--releasever' to specify "

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@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
import argparse
import dnf
import dnf.conf
import dnf.conf.read
import dnf.exceptions
@ -164,3 +165,14 @@ class ConfTest(tests.support.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(conf.releasever, '1.2')
self.assertEqual(conf.releasever_major, '3')
self.assertEqual(conf.releasever_minor, '4')
def test__read_conf_file_preserves_autodetected_releasever_major_minor(self):
base = dnf.Base()
base.conf.releasever = '1' # Do not set to '1.2', autodetection pretends '1'
base.conf.releasever_major = '1'
base.conf.releasever_minor = '2'
cli = dnf.cli.Cli(base)
cli._read_conf_file()
self.assertEqual(base.conf.releasever, '1')
self.assertEqual(base.conf.releasever_major, '1')
self.assertEqual(base.conf.releasever_minor, '2')