yum remove half-of-my-system

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Poelstra wrote:

> Bill Nottingham said the following on 05/13/2009 10:42 AM Pacific Time:
>> John Poelstra (poelstra at redhat.com) said: 
>>> Do we consider this a bug? There was no deps chain in Fedora 10 (it was  a 
>>> single package add or remove) so it seems like a regression to me.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> I got this while doing a 'yum remove sendmail' in latest rawhide.....
>> 
>> sendmail provides smtpdaemon. Something very very core on your system
>> reqiures that, chaos then ensues.
>> 
>> Looking at the yum depsolving output should make it more obvious
>> what the first package that requires it is.
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>
> I don't think I have anything very unusual.
>
> http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/paste-bin/yum-remove-sendmail.log
>

Here you go:

---> Package sendmail.x86_64 0:8.14.3-5.fc11 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/sbin/sendmail for package: redhat-lsb
--> Processing Dependency: /usr/sbin/sendmail for package: cronie
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cronie.x86_64 0:1.2-7.fc11 set to be erased
---> Package redhat-lsb.x86_64 0:3.2-3.fc11 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: /etc/cron.d for package: crontabs
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package crontabs.noarch 0:1.10-29.fc11 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: crontabs for package: anacron
--> Processing Dependency: crontabs for package: rpm


cronie requires /usr/sbin/sendmail (sendmail)
crontabs requires /etc/cron.d (cronie)
rpm requires crontabs (crontabs)
policycoreutils requires rpm (rpm)

and everything else falls apart from there.

-sv