Comments on: Testing yum’s autoremove orphaned deps feature

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:52:34 +0000

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:40:29 +0000

Sorry, my fault, I didn’t change the yum.conf before trying, now everything works fine, regards.

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:37:25 +0000

Hi,
I tried this today, I was trying to see if zif works the same, but after I removed mplayer and libcaca did not get removed (actually no package got removed), I removed vlc and again no dependency got removed (libcaca and all other packages), do you know why is that?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:39:26 +0000

Nice! :-/

-c

By: Gerald

Gerald — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:17:37 +0000

yum erase $(package-cleanup –leaves)

on my CentOS 5 system wants to uninstall yum along with yum-fastetmirror, yum-priorities, yum-updatesd and yum-utils.

And thats even though package-cleanup –leaves doesn’t even mention yum but only some audio/video libraries. It’s really amazing how Red Hat got so popular with the worst package management system in town.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:29:03 +0000

Hey Chris,

A couple of days after posting here I came across a similar bug in redhat’s bugzilla – https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=653583

Only difference – the guy has used vlc. The end result turned out to be circular dependencies between the dependencies pulled for vlc. I expect it might be the same thing in my case, though I haven’t verified it. But from what I remember, the dependency packages not removed were all connected to mono.

Well, I think this concludes the issue for me. RPM/yum is getting better at removing dependencies. But it still lags behind APT as both mine scenario and the one in bugzilla are showing IMHO.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:53:24 +0000

OK, thanks. So it is doing something, but maybe not in the quite right way.. Thanks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:40:55 +0000

Hi Chris,

Here’s the answer to your question: Without clean_requirements_on_remove yum will remove only banshee and banshee-musicbrainz. It seems the last one lists banshee as requirement (haven’t checked it but it makes sense).

Note this is Fedora 15 alpha not synced to latest from rawhide.

Details follow:

[root@localhost ~]# yum remove banshee –disableplugin=remove-with-leaves
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, keys, langpacks, merge-conf, presto, protectbase, refresh-
: packagekit, security, versionlock
Adding en_US to language list
# cut out some useless info
=================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=================================================================================================
Removing:
banshee i686 1.9.5-1.fc15 @fedora 11 M
Removing for dependencies:
banshee-musicbrainz i686 1.9.5-1.fc15 @fedora 64 k

Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================
Remove 2 Package(s)

Installed size: 11 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:20:18 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Hmm.. that seems strange. Maybe there are some bugs in F15 at the moment? Out of curiosity, what does yum want to remove if you do NOT set clean_requirements_on_remove in yum.conf? Might be worth reporting on Seth’s blog..

I hope to have a play with F15 soon, but busy with Kororaa 14 at the moment..

-c

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:35:37 +0000

Here’s one more experiment of mine on Fedora 15 Alpha LiveCD (after adding clean_requirements_on_remove=1):

# yum install banshee
Installing:
banshee
Installing for dependencies:
banshee-musicbrainz
gdata-sharp
giflib
gio-sharp
gkeyfile-sharp
glib2-devel
gnome-sharp
gtk-sharp-beans
gtk-sharp2
gudev-sharp
libgdiplus
libgpod-sharp
mono-4-preview
mono-addins
mono-core
mono-data
mono-data-sqlite
mono-devel
mono-extras
mono-mvc
mono-nunit
mono-wcf
mono-web
mono-winforms
mono-zeroconf
monodoc
ndesk-dbus
ndesk-dbus-glib
notify-sharp
taglib-sharp
Updating for dependencies:
glib2

Transaction Summary
==========================
Install 31 Package(s)
Upgrade 1 Package(s)

# yum remove banshee
Removing:
banshee
Removing for dependencies:
banshee-musicbrainz
gdata-sharp
gio-sharp
gkeyfile-sharp
gnome-sharp
gtk-sharp-beans
gtk-sharp2
gudev-sharp
libgpod-sharp
mono-addins
mono-zeroconf
ndesk-dbus
ndesk-dbus-glib
notify-sharp
taglib-sharp

Transaction Summary
==========================
Remove 16 Package(s)