On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at 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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com