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Bug 1786335

Summary: dnf history command output is trimmed because of hardcoded 79 cols limit
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Ivan Pesin <ivan.pesin>
Component: dnfAssignee: Nicola Sella <nsella>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: medium
Version: 8.4CC: james.antill
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 8.0Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
Whiteboard:
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2020-11-04 01:52:25 UTC Bug
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Description Ivan Pesin 2019-12-24 13:51:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

`dnf history` command's output is limited to 79 columns regardless of the actual terminal width. This often results in the commands column being trimmed, and makes it impossible to see the complete history information.

How reproducible:

Execute dnf install/update/remove command with parameters string longer than 24 characters. For example:

 dnf install less vim-enhanced tree bind-utils

Actual results:

[root@localhost cli]# dnf history
ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 4 | install patch | 2019-12-24 13:27 | Install | 1
 3 | install tmux iputils mc | 2019-12-24 13:25 | Install | 48
 2 | install less vim-enhance | 2019-12-24 13:19 | Install | 10
 1 | | 2019-12-24 13:12 | Install | 394 EE

Expected results:

[root@localhost cli]# dnf history
ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 4 | install patch | 2019-12-24 13:27 | Install | 1
 3 | install tmux iputils mc golang | 2019-12-24 13:25 | Install | 48
 2 | install less vim-enhanced tree bind-utils | 2019-12-24 13:19 | Install | 10
 1 | | 2019-12-24 13:12 | Install | 394 EE
Comment 1 Nicola Sella 2020-01-13 15:53:51 UTC 
PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1567
Comment 2 Nicola Sella 2020-02-06 16:18:15 UTC 
(In reply to nsella from comment #1)
> PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1567

Edit:
A PR that fixes the bug for terminal output was merged. [1]
For redirecting stdout to file there is an enhancement of the previous. [2]

[1] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1559
[2] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1587
Comment 3 Nicola Sella 2020-03-27 15:50:17 UTC 
test: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/ci-dnf-stack/pull/813
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:52:25 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (yum bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:4510