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Bug 1246570 - dnf autoremove removes packages installed with gnome software
Summary: dnf autoremove removes packages installed with gnome software
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1259865
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-24 15:07 UTC by Steven Goris
Modified: 2016-01-08 12:38 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-12-07 10:37:08 UTC
Type: Bug
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dnf autoremove log (16.83 KB, text/plain)
2015-09-17 13:17 UTC, Sudhir Khanger 		no flags Details
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Description Steven Goris 2015-07-24 15:07:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
All packages installed with gnome software get removed upon 'dnf autoremove'.

Version-Release number of selected components:
dnf version: 1.0.1-2.fc22
gnome-software version: 3.16.4-1.fc22


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install something using gnome software
2. Perform 'dnf autoremove'

Actual results:
'dnf autoremove' wants to delete the installed package.

Expected results:
'dnf autoremove' does not touch the installed package.
Comment 1 Steven Goris 2015-07-24 15:17:13 UTC 
Sorry, it is probably a bug in dnf and not in gnome-software, but I can't change it.
Comment 2 Benjamin Xiao 2015-08-19 05:00:28 UTC 
I am seeing this with regular removes as well. I installed cockpit and then tried to uninstall it via 'dnf remove' and it tried to uninstall selinux-policy and selinux-policy-targeted which I am pretty sure is pretty important.


@Steven, are you sure its a bug in dnf and not gnome-software being weird and marking packages as "autoinstalled"? I can imagine gnome-software installing packages as autoinstalled and then whenever dnf checks for packages that aren't depended on anymore, it picks out those.
Comment 3 Benjamin Xiao 2015-08-19 05:05:03 UTC 
This bug should really be rated high severity. Autoremoving important system packages is a big deal.
Comment 4 Steven Goris 2015-08-21 12:58:38 UTC 
No I'm not sure, it could be both. Other people were also experiencing issues with dnf autoremove in other cases but these issues should have been patched. That why I was not sure. I also realize now that it should be rated with a high severity but I can't change it anymore.
Comment 5 Richard Shaw 2015-09-17 12:48:33 UTC 
I ran into a similar problem and none of it had to to do with gnome-software. I was trying to remove munin and it wanted to uninstall a bunch of packages, the perl ones I didn't mind as I only installed them with munin but it also wanted to uninstall packages I used, I even tried using -x to exclude them from the transaction but it didn't work. I finally had to use yum instead.
Comment 6 Sudhir Khanger 2015-09-17 13:17:45 UTC 
Created attachment 1074463 [details]
dnf autoremove log

dnf autoremove is insisting on removing user-installed packages by itself. Please see the log.
Comment 7 Benjamin Xiao 2015-09-22 17:49:22 UTC 
@Richard and @Sudhir

Did you guys happen to run a offline update by any chance? Like when you select Install pending software updates during shutdown?

That uses a similar mechanism to gnome-software to install and causes the same issues.
Comment 8 Richard Shaw 2015-09-22 17:53:44 UTC 
No, I pretty much exclusively use CLI tools for updating.
Comment 9 Sudhir Khanger 2015-09-22 20:39:57 UTC 
I rarely use software update applet but I might have used it to update my system a few times.
Comment 10 Rex Dieter 2015-11-19 20:16:57 UTC 
I'm seeing this (or very similar badness) in f23/plasma too using it's own PackageKit clients, humorously,

$ sudo dnf autoremove

Error: The operation would result in removing the booted kernel: kernel-core-4.2.6-300.fc23.x86_64.
Comment 11 Michal Luscon 2015-12-07 10:37:08 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1259865 ***
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