Description of problem: I have several servers with no wireless capabilities. attempting to remove the wireless-tools package with yum results in rhpl asking to be removed also. This drags in rhn_register, yum-rhn-plugin, and required applications. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhpl-0.194.1-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum remove wireless-tools 2. view dependent packages also being removed 3. Actual results: [root@uit-dev ~]# yum remove wireless-tools Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Setting up Remove Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package wireless-tools.x86_64 1:28-2.el5 set to be erased --> Processing Dependency: libiw.so.28()(64bit) for package: rhpl --> Running transaction check ---> Package rhpl.x86_64 0:0.194.1-1 set to be erased --> Processing Dependency: rhpl >= 0.81-2 for package: rhn-client-tools --> Running transaction check ---> Package rhn-client-tools.noarch 0:0.4.19-17.el5 set to be erased --> Processing Dependency: rhn-client-tools = 0.4.19-17.el5 for package: rhn-setup --> Processing Dependency: rhn-client-tools >= 0.4.19-9 for package: yum-rhn-plugin --> Processing Dependency: rhn-client-tools = 0.4.19-17.el5 for package: rhn-check --> Running transaction check ---> Package rhn-setup.noarch 0:0.4.19-17.el5 set to be erased ---> Package yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:0.5.3-30.el5 set to be erased ---> Package rhn-check.noarch 0:0.4.19-17.el5 set to be erased --> Processing Dependency: rhn-check >= 0.0.8 for package: rhnsd --> Running transaction check ---> Package rhnsd.x86_64 0:4.6.1-1.el5 set to be erased --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================= Removing: wireless-tools x86_64 1:28-2.el5 installed 192 k Removing for dependencies: rhn-check noarch 0.4.19-17.el5 installed 50 k rhn-client-tools noarch 0.4.19-17.el5 installed 3.0 M rhn-setup noarch 0.4.19-17.el5 installed 387 k rhnsd x86_64 4.6.1-1.el5 installed 69 k rhpl x86_64 0.194.1-1 installed 922 k yum-rhn-plugin noarch 0.5.3-30.el5 installed 158 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 7 Package(s) Is this ok [y/N]: Expected results: wireless-tools should not drag in rhpl (rhpl shouldn't require wireless-tools) Additional info:
We are not going to be able to address this in RHEL5 due to the fact that the real fix requires shuffling code around among lots of components. However, we do think that we can take care of this in the Fedora 12 / RHEL6 timeframe so I'm going to dupe this to a bug that's tracking that issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480558 ***