On one particular machine that has recently been updated to Fedora 26: $ dnf repoquery --unsatisfied Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:05 ago on Thu Jul 20 11:40:40 2017. The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: kernel-core This message doesn't seem to make sense for a query operation! Here are all the kernel packages that are installed on the machine: kernel-4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64 kernel-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-core-4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-core-4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64 kernel-core-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-devel-4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-devel-4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64 kernel-devel-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-headers-4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-modules-4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-modules-4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64 kernel-modules-4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 kernel-tools-libs-4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 The currently running kernel is 4.11.9-300.fc26.x86_64 Here are the dnf-related packages on the machine: dnf-2.5.1-1.fc26.noarch dnf-conf-2.5.1-1.fc26.noarch python3-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade-2.0.1-1.fc26.noarch python2-dnf-plugins-extras-common-2.0.1-1.fc26.noarch dnf-plugins-core-2.1.2-2.fc26.noarch python2-dnf-2.5.1-1.fc26.noarch python3-dnf-plugins-core-2.1.2-2.fc26.noarch python3-dnf-plugins-extras-common-2.0.1-1.fc26.noarch dnf-yum-2.5.1-1.fc26.noarch python3-dnf-2.5.1-1.fc26.noarch python2-dnf-plugin-system-upgrade-2.0.1-1.fc26.noarch libdnf-0.9.2-1.fc26.x86_64 python2-hawkey-0.9.2-1.fc26.x86_64 python3-hawkey-0.9.2-1.fc26.x86_64 libsolv-0.6.28-1.fc26.x86_64
*** Bug 1484420 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I created a patch that should solve the problem (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/914).
*** Bug 1492389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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This particular problem seems solved. Can we close the ticket?
We will close it after release. Ii it OK?
Fine by me. Thanks! :)
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
this is *not* solved ------------------- [root@firewall:~]$ dnf repoquery --unsatisfied Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:09 ago on Sat Sep 7 17:15:40 2019. Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: kernel-core -------------------- after rpm was too dumb too handle immutable files in a proper way resulting in cpio errors and neither the old version nor the new are in the rpm database i just wanted to find out what packages (besides glibc - which i just 'dnf install glibc'-ed) are missing from the database to simply install them dnf-4.2.8-1.fc30.noarch dnf-data-4.2.8-1.fc30.noarch libdnf-0.35.2-1.fc30.x86_64 python3-dnf-4.2.8-1.fc30.noarch python3-dnf-plugin-leaves-4.0.9-1.fc30.noarch python3-dnf-plugins-core-4.0.9-1.fc30.noarch python3-libdnf-0.35.2-1.fc30.x86_64