Description of Problem: I ran redhat-config-packages, click to install some new packages and clicked to remove some I didn't need. Then clicked "update", it said it was "preparing to install/delete" then it said insert CD 1 of Psyche. I didn't have a CD, so I clicked cancel ... it then did something (with the UI hung) for about 5 minutes. After that, I ran it again and it said I didn't have gnome installed ... worrying slightly about what it had done I rebooted. At least the following happened: GDM was deleted, and has been replaced with kdm in the startup. evolution has been deleted. Multiload applet has been deleted. I hadn't requested any of these packages to be deleted, it's also possible/likely that other things have gone. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-packages-1.0.1-1 How Reproducible: Unknown. Steps to Reproduce: 1. click to add a bunch of packages, and delete a bunch of different ones. 2. click "upgrade" 3. click "cancel" at CD insert prompt. Actual Results: Random packages deleted. Expected Results: Either just the reqeusted deleted packages to be deleted ... or do nothing as the installs cannot be satisfied. Additional Information: It's pretty hard to work out what I need to install to make "gnome" thinks it's installed again ... probably some of the standard packages got deleted, but it's not easy to see which.
I can't reproduce this here -- are you sure you didn't select to remove a lot of packages and maybe that removal got moved to the beginning of the transaction set?
As I said, I did select to have _some_ removed ... but not all of the ones that got deleted (specifically gnome-applets, gnome-games, evolution, nautilus and gdm were _NOT_ selected for removal -- and they were gone). I guess it's possible that I decided to have a dependancy of those removed, by accident, however it didn't tell me it was going to remove them. Also I have since used redhat-config-packages to just add things (when I have the CDs), and if you have to click cancel[1] then it returns very quickly ... when the above problem occured a _lot_ of disk activity happened after I clicked cancel and before the program exited. I assume this is when the packages were deleted that I didn't want deleted ... but it's hard to say. In theory I could try creating the problem again, but I don't have a test machine ... the above was done with my company laptop and I had to spend time the next day downloading a version of evolution so I could read my work email. [1] some rpm was required by firstboot before it would do anything, and I manually installed it ... but it only looks at rpms installed when you start it.
Did you possibly select authoring/publishing for removal?
I can't guarantee it, but it's likely.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74958 ***