On Fri, 01 May 2020 22:54:06 +0200 Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Il giorno ven, 01/05/2020 alle 11.15 -0700, stan via users ha scritto: > > protected_packages > > This method cause a problem: > > $ sudo dnf update > Last metadata expiration check: 0:53:56 ago on Fri May 1 21:53:49 > 2020. > Error: > Problem: The operation would result in removing the following > protected packages: python2-gobject, python2-gobject-base > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) > > Better put "exclude=python2-gobject python2-gobject-base" into > /etc/dnf/dnf.conf : > > $ sudo dnf update > Last metadata expiration check: 0:58:34 ago on Fri May 1 21:53:49 > 2020. Dependencies resolved. > Nothing to do. > Complete! Interesting. I thought this would be equivalent to exclude. They must run at different points in the process. Exclude removes before consideration of updates, protected stops the operation after consideration of updates. I wonder if protection causing an error is a bug; it's pretty useless if it prevents all updates because of an error by protecting an obsolete package, one of its intended purposes. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
