Bug 1279509

Summary:	dnf does not protect itself from being removed by itself
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stefan Paletta <stefanp>
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	jsilhan, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, vmukhame
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Description Stefan Paletta 2015-11-09 15:36:32 UTC

Description of problem:

Despite /etc/dnf/protected.d/dnf.conf listing dnf, dnf will remove itself when asked, e.g. to remove python3.

$ cat /etc/dnf/protected.d/dnf.conf
dnf
$ 

Analysis with strace shows that this file is never accessed in the process.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.1.3-1.fc23

How reproducible:

sudo dnf -y remove python3

Actual results:

dnf removes python3 and packages that depend on it, including itself.

Expected results:

dnf aborts before removing any package.

Comment 1 Stefan Paletta 2015-11-16 10:53:00 UTC

Closing as notabug because installing dnf-plugins-core fixes it.

Technically still a bug because system-upgrade from F22 left the system without that package.