Check-Upgrade Command

Synopsis

dnf5 check-upgrade [options] [<package-spec-N>...]

Description

Non-interactively checks for available updates of specified packages. If no <package-spec-N> is provided, it checks for updates for the entire system.

DNF5 will exit with code 100 if updates are available and list them; 0 if no updates are available.

If terminal is available, list of the packages is colored, packages available for reinstall are (by default) colored with bold green and packages available for upgrade with bold blue. This behavior can be adjusted in dnf5.conf(5) via color_list_available_upgrade and color_list_available_reinstall options.

Options

--changelogs: Print the package changelogs.

--advisories=ADVISORY_NAME,...: Include content contained in advisories with specified name.

This is a list option.

Expected values are advisory IDs, e.g. FEDORA-2201-123.

Any transaction command (install, upgrade) will fail with an error if there is no existing advisory in the list; this can be bypassed by using the –skip-unavailable switch.

--advisory-severities=ADVISORY_SEVERITY,...: Include content contained in advisories with specified severity.

This is a list option.

Accepted values are: critical, important, moderate, low, none.

--bzs=BUGZILLA_ID,...: Include content contained in advisories that fix a ticket of the given Bugzilla ID.

This is a list option.

Expected values are numeric IDs, e.g. 123123.

Any transaction command (install, upgrade) will fail with an error if there is no advisory fixing the given ticket; this can be bypassed by using the –skip-unavailable switch.

--cves=CVE_ID,...: Include content contained in advisories that fix a ticket of the given CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) ID.

This is a list option.

Expected values are string IDs in CVE format, e.g. CVE-2201-0123.

Any transaction command (install, upgrade) will fail with an error if there is no advisory fixing the given ticket; this can be bypassed by using the –skip-unavailable switch.

--security: Include content contained in security advisories.

--bugfix: Include content contained in bugfix advisories.

--enhancement: Include content contained in enhancement advisories.

--newpackage: Include content contained in newpackage advisories.

--minimal: Reports the lowest versions of packages that fix advisories of type bugfix, enhancement, security, or

newpackage. In case that any option limiting advisories is used it reports the lowest versions of packages

that fix advisories matching selected advisory properties”
--json: Request JSON output format.

Examples

dnf5 check-upgrade: Print a list of packages that have updates available.
dnf5 check-upgrade --changelogs: Print changelogs for all packages with pending updates.

JSON Output

dnf5 check-upgrade --json

The command returns a JSON object with the following structure:

keys represent a section of the “pretty” CLI output
values represent the packages in that section as an array of objects with the following structure:
- name (string): package name
- arch (string): package architecture
- evr (string): available update version
- repository (string): repository ID from which the update is available
- obsoletes (array): (only for the “Obsoleting packages” section) list of the packages that obsolete this package (they have the same structure as above, omitting obsoletes)