Bug 9404

Summary:	Smart will remove RECOMMENDS during a remove command
Product:	[Runtime] Package Management Issues	Reporter:	Jate Sujjavanich <jatedev>
Component:	package-management-issues	Assignee:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	randy.macleod, richard.purdie, sgw
Version:	1.5.5
Target Milestone:	2.3 M4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Jate Sujjavanich 2016-04-06 19:34:51 UTC

Preconditions/Environment
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On an derived from poky dora-1.5, firewall kernel modules were moved from module space to kernel space. The image used RPM packages.

Triggering Action/Cause
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smart remove kernel-module-nf-* 

Expectation
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The smart package manager should remove only kernel-module-nf*

Actual Result
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The smart package manager removes ufw which RECOMMENDS a number of kernel firewall modules

Reproducibility
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Always

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2016-04-07 14:53:30 UTC

Can you confirm if this is present on master. If its only present in dora, we're unlikely to go back and fix it at this point.

Comment 2 Jate Sujjavanich 2016-04-07 23:59:22 UTC

Preconditions/Environment
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Tried the master branch of poky. Machine is qemuarm. Started with core-image-base, and added iptables which pulled in several kernel modules via RRECOMMENDS.

Triggering Action/Cause
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root@qemuarm:~# smart remove kernel-module-x-tables

Expectation
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The smart package manager should not remove iptables. The package iptables RECOMMENDS the kernel modules.

Actual Result
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Loading cache...
Updating cache...               ######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...

Removing packages (4):
  iptables-1.6.0-r0@armv5e                                                      
  kernel-module-ip-tables-4.4.3+git0+770996a263_8809b2c36a-r0@qemuarm           
  kernel-module-iptable-filter-4.4.3+git0+770996a263_8809b2c36a-r0@qemuarm      
  kernel-module-x-tables-4.4.3+git0+770996a263_8809b2c36a-r0@qemuarm            

897.9kB will be freed.

Confirm changes? (Y/n):

There are RDEPENDS between kernel-module-ip-tables and the other two kernel modules listed.

Reproducibility
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Always

Comment 3 Stephen K Jolley 2016-04-18 20:42:30 UTC

It appears the NEEDINFO has been supplied.  If not, please comment on what is still needed.

Comment 4 Robert Yang 2017-03-16 06:24:48 UTC

Smart is gone, now it is DNF.