FR: allow reinstallig an "override remove"d (during image building process) package

[firefoxlover]

Currently there is no way to reset the "removed" stage of single apps as far as I understood.

This means when uninstalling an app and wanting to have it back, for example to force-reinstall it, you need to reset your whole system.

rpm-ostree install APP does not work, as does rpm-ostree install --allow-inactive APP

Please add an rpm-ostree reset APP argument possibility to reset a single app.

[kubepy]

i noticed this issue too, seems rpm-ostree override remove somepkg in dockefile, it cannot reset or reinstall the pkg again and inactive.

I don't whether it has any workarounds or solutions could help me.

[firefoxlover]

this is still an issue, especially with custom images like ublue, where some packages are removed and can't be reinstalled.

[kra-mo]

rpm-ostree override reset [PACKAGE]?

[firefoxlover]

weird. I thought I had tried this one before.

Anyways this does not apply to the specific situation when during image building process a package was removed. For example Fedora ships a base image, this gets consumed by another project which decides to remove a package from the base image. A user then wants to revert such an override, to avoid the need to build too many opinionated images.

~ ❯❯❯ rpm-ostree override reset firefox firefox-langpacks
error: No overrides for package 'firefox'
~ ❯❯❯ rpm-ostree install firefox firefox-langpacks
Inactive requests:
  firefox (already provided by firefox-122.0-5.fc39.x86_64)
  firefox-langpacks (already provided by firefox-langpacks-122.0-5.fc39.x86_64)

the packages are not detected as override-removed so they can't be added back

[firefoxlover]

Related issue: #4812

So exact steps to reproduce easily:

• use a distro taking Fedoras images and using for example a Github worker, override removing a package and then building an OCI image from that. i.e. ublue and derivatives
• try to reset that distro, the package will not be added back
• try to install that package, it will show as "package already provided" even though it is not installed

[boredsquirrel]

I have the same issue.

During the process when uBlue takes the Fedora OCI images and override removes packages, then ships the image, then I use the image again and try to add a package during the build, I think the same issue occurs.

Though no error output possible yet. But doing it locally I can reproduce the said errors.