On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Bart Schaefer
<barton.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx
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