[CentOS] Going back to a minimal system : strange problem

Nicolas Kovacs info at microlinux.fr
Mon Feb 26 17:25:31 UTC 2018


Le 26/02/2018 à 16:12, Gordon Messmer a écrit :
> I would hazard to guess that the flaw is simply that from time to
> time, packages are added to the minimal install as a side effect of
> adding in new dependencies.  If you had a minimal install and simply
> ran "yum update", you would periodically see yum report that it would
> install new packages for dependencies, in addition to the updates.
> As that is the case, you will need to update your minimal package
> list immediately before running the pruning script in order to avoid
> removal of core packages.

That was my thought also, but the only difference between a fresh
installation of CentOS 7.4 and the updated version as of today is the
replacement of grub2 by grub2-tools, so that's not the reason apparently.

> 
> I wonder if it might work to use a yum transaction, in which you
> first remove everything (which avoids the need for the list
> entirely), then adds the minimal package set, and then commits the
> transaction...

I only have a very vague notion of yum transactions, so I'll look into
that and report back.

Cheers,

Niki

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