Bug 1371639

Summary: "dnf autoremove" tries remove dnf
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz>
Component: dnfAssignee: rpm-software-management
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: ignatenko, jsilhan, kloczko.tomasz, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Tomasz Kłoczko 2016-08-30 17:14:27 UTC 
Description of problem:

Few days ago I've removed yum package as I don't need it any more and now I see "dnf autoremove" is a bit useless :)
I think that dnf themselves should be blacklisted by definition from list of packages which can possibly be removed.

# dnf autoremove
Last metadata expiration check: 0:38:04 ago on Tue Aug 30 17:31:04 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf.
Comment 1 Igor Gnatenko 2016-08-31 05:47:59 UTC 
bascially it tries to remove some dependency of DNF.

run dnf with --debugsolver and attach created directory "debugdata".
Comment 2 Tomasz Kłoczko 2016-08-31 10:02:32 UTC 
Created attachment 1196283 [details]
debugdata

debug data directory is in attachment
Comment 3 Igor Gnatenko 2016-08-31 10:12:11 UTC 
try something like:
# dnf mark install dnf NetworkManager-wifi kernel-devel
and all other packages which you want explicitly to keep.

I think you were using yum-deprecated or/and PackageKit (until some release). Those 2 do not write to DNF database, so DNF thinks that it's not user-installed packages.
Comment 4 Tomasz Kłoczko 2016-08-31 11:19:38 UTC 
Just in case .. I've been generating debugdata on fully updated few minuter earlier system to latest rawhide.

# dnf mark install dnf
dnf-1.1.10-1.fc26.noarch marked as user installed.

and after this "dnf autoremove" is producing now list of possibly to remove list of packages.
Nevertheless if it is possible to mark package X to not be listed in atoremove  list IMO dnf should be on such list OOTB.