On 05/24/2016 02:37 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > On 24 May 2016 08:20, "Kalev Lember" <kalevlem...@gmail.com > <mailto:kalevlem...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On 05/23/2016 10:12 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote: >> > I opened a ticket on this: >> > >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338198 >> > >> > >> > and I have sent a message to klember who just put out the new release >> > on koji yesterday with the same issue. >> > >> > I don't know how long it has been like this, but if someone is > unfortunate >> > to uninstall without catching that it is also going to uninstall >> > sqlite-libs (like I was) >> > they are going to have a mess on their hands. >> > >> > Can somebody please intervene and get this fixed? >> >> I don't think this is in any way a corebird packaging bug. It sounds >> like something that uses sqlite libraries is just missing a dependency >> on them, which makes DNF legitimately remove the sqlite-libs package >> when it knows that there are no more users left. >> >> Might be a case of multilib dependencies mixup, where a package that >> needs x86_64 sqlite-libs only has a dependency on "sqlite-libs" and not >> on "sqlite-libs(x86-64)", which makes DNF keep the 32 bit version and >> get rid of the 64 bit. Or something like that :) >> > > No you're missing a key bit of the linked bug. > > It doesn't just affect packages directly installed by packagekit but any > updates too. Before the libhif update they were all marked as dependencies. > > So sqlite gets marked as an install as part of the initial system > install. Packagekit at some point updated it overwriting that saying > it's a dependency. Then dnf autoremove cleans up that at the next > opportunity as it now appears a leaf/orphan. > > The fixed libhif means from that point on the flag is set right, but the > update didn't do anything in retrospect.
I think the user/dep issue is orthogonal to the issue at hand. Sure, marking it as user installed probably masks the bug, but that's not a proper fix. The core of the issue is that we have a package somewhere that needs sqlite-libs, but isn't expressing it in their dependencies, so rpm let's you remove sqlite-libs breaking that other package. Whether it's "dnf autoremove" or just "rpm -e" that triggers the removal doesn't really matter, it's still a dependency problem in the other package that needs to require sqlite-libs. Kalev -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
