Bug 1410947 - Error message by dnf when removing dependency of protected package is not useful
Summary: Error message by dnf when removing dependency of protected package is not useful
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jaroslav Mracek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-06 23:23 UTC by Neal Gompa
Modified: 2018-09-24 14:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-09-24 14:54:17 UTC
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Description Neal Gompa 2017-01-06 23:23:18 UTC
Description of problem:
When attempting to remove a package that is a dependency of a protected package, the error returned does not make it obvious the reason it is blocked is because it would result in the removal of a protected package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.0.0-1.mga6 (= 2.0.0-1.fc26)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run sudo dnf remove gnupg2

Actual results:
Error: package python3-gpgme-0.3-9.mga6.x86_64 requires libgpgme.so.11()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package python3-dnf-2.0.0-1.mga6.noarch requires python3-gpgme, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package lib64gpgme11-1.8.0-8.mga6.x86_64 requires gnupg2 >= 1.9.6, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package dnf-2.0.0-1.mga6.noarch requires python3-dnf = 2.0.0-1.mga6, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package dnf-2.0.0-1.mga6.noarch

Expected results:
Some detailed error showing the dependency chain resulting in showing that it would cause the removal of dnf, which is not allowed as it is a protected package.

Additional info:
This error should be just as reproducible in Fedora Rawhide, as gnupg2 is an indirect dependency of dnf, and dnf declares itself protected by default.

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2017-01-09 15:25:50 UTC
Thanks for the report. It could be improved by extending set of protected packages recursively by it's dependencies before checking the set for removals.

Comment 2 Neal Gompa 2017-01-09 22:26:34 UTC
Another aspect of it would be to make it so that the error statement doesn't look like it's trying to install something. Initially I was confused by the error because it looked like an install dependency error (even though I was attempting to remove a package). The problem statements printed should be in the correct context (that is, showing the broken reverse dependency chain from the proposed removal action).

So I would say this and Honza's suggestion in Comment 1 would essentially solve the problem.

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 10:54:17 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 4 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-06-02 18:52:37 UTC
I created pull request (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/295) that should improve the behavior. Unfortunately it can report only one protected package in transaction. I do not know what was supposed solution, but my solution was not an easy fix. Have a fun with testing.

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Comment 6 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 11:14:47 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 7 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-09-24 14:54:17 UTC
Problem fixed in libdnf-0.10.0


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