Fallback to update when reinstalling a missing package

[kiwixz]

microdnf reinstall should have an option to allow an update if the package is missing.

This is needed when trying to fix the stripped-out tzdata in the fedora-minimal docker image.
microdnf reinstall tzdata currently errors out:

bash-5.0# microdnf reinstall tzdata
Downloading metadata...
Downloading metadata...
Downloading metadata...
Installed package tzdata-2020f-1.fc33.noarch not available.
error: The transaction was empty

Workaround: rpm --e --nodeps tzdata && microdnf install tzdata

[dmach]

We're not going to implement it in the current code base, but we'll include this in our future plans.
As a workaround, couldn't you run something like microdnf reinstall tzdata || microdnf update tzdata ?