On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
Before you update anything, I suggest you run
rpm -e --test gnutls
If this complains about "refers to more than one package" then use
rpm -e --test gnutls.i386 gnutls.x86_64
This will tell you what other packages depend on the gnutls library. It's probably fewer than you think, because RHEL/CentOS have openssl packages as well. We determined that for our servers we could simply remove gnutls (desktops are a different matter).
(Ideally "rpm -q --whatrequires" would tell you this, but in fact it does not unless you know the magic string that fully names "libgnutls.so...")
Wouldn't 'yum remove gnutls' be a better check since it will walk up the dependency tree - and is interactive by default so it will show the list and wait for confirmation?