How to get all transactions involving a certain package with DNF5?

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Hi,

DNF4 allowed to use dnf history list <package-name> to get a list of all transactions involving a certain package, which was very useful when trying to isolate when a certain issue might have been introduced with which transaction and package version change.

DNF5 doesn’t know about this, is there an equivalent syntax?

Thanks, Eric

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Apparently the feature is missing in dnf5.

You could use something like this:

dnf history info 1..last | grep -E "Transaction ID|Description|<package-name>"

… and tweak it to make the output prettier.

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FYI: "dnf5 history" cannot search by a package name · Issue #667 · rpm-software-management/dnf5 · GitHub

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Thanks to both of you, for the workaround and the (hopefully) long term solution.
I came up with the following one-liner (split on multiple lines) and subscribed to the issue:

dnf history info 1..last | awk -F ' +: ' -v package=$MYPACKAGE '
$1 == "Transaction ID" {transaction = $NF}
$1 == "End time" {time = $NF}
$1 == "Releasever" {relver = $NF}
$0 ~ package {split($0, a, / +/); print transaction, time, relver, a[2], a[3]}
'