Re: dnf messages when installing recent fc44 kernels
Francis Montagnac via users <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general |
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| 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 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new