[lug] Finding and removing obsolete packages after system upgrade

[Jonathan Eidsness]

Thanks Kevin,

Your tip is exactly what I needed! Works like a charm!

Jonathan Eidsness
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On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:01 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 01:09:48PM -0600, Jonathan Eidsness wrote:
> > Hey Everybody,
> >
> > Docker broke on my recent system upgrade to Fedora 32 as a result of
> having
> > oci-systemd-hook installed (which was obsoleted some time ago). Removing
> > the package fixed my issue, but now i'm left wondering what other
> obsoletes
> > are hiding in there.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there's a way to query dnf for packages that aren't
> > found in any upstream repositories anymore? A list of packages that have
> > been obsoleted in fedora would be a good option as well.
>
> dnf list extras
>
> will list all packages you have installed that are not available in some
> enabled repo. Note that sometimes this will list completely normal
> things, like older kernel versions that you have installed but arent in
> the repos anymore.
>
> You can use:
>
> dnf repoquery --unsatisfied
>
> to see any packages you have installed that have unsatisfied
> dependencies.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> kevin
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