Re: dnf messages when installing recent fc44 kernels

Francis Montagnac via users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <20260531103609.461bd35d@fmpc>
> On 5/30/26 1:45 AM, [email protected] wrote:
[...]
>>> Maybe this is some old ssl packages that are not needed and can be 
>>> removed?

>>> $ sudo dnf remove compat-openssl10 openssl1.1
>>> Package                          Arch 
>>> Version                          Repository            Size
>>> Removing:
[...]
>>>   compat-openssl10                x86_64 
>>> 1:1.0.2o-9.fc32                  fedora             2.9 MiB
[...]

>>> Is it safe to remove these? I hope so.  

>> They're all really old packages except the one compat package that 
>> nothing else is using.  

> Thanks. Of course, but my question was more specific: Is it safe to 
> remove these?

It may depend on the services you are running on this server.

You may see if some are in used with lsof, but not 100% sure, if some
process dynamically loads such libraries when running, not only at
startup.

> In other words, will the system be OK without these?

Depends thus on your services.

> I expect that if I later NEED to reinstall these, the packages may very 
> well not be available.  

They are still available, thanks to the updates-archive repo provided
by the fedora-repos-archive RPM.

Example:

  sudo dnf -y install fedora-repos-archive

  # Better IMO to disable this repo by default
  sudo dnf config-manager disable updates-archive

  dnf -q --enablerepo=updates-archive --releasever=32 \
      list compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-9.fc32
  Available packages
  compat-openssl10.i686   1:1.0.2o-9.fc32 fedora
  compat-openssl10.x86_64 1:1.0.2o-9.fc32 fedora

THat said, you should also for safety make a backup of your OS first,
eventually only a backup of /etc

-- 
francis
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