Hover over the "uninstall button" for the WMI Windows Agents plugin in the Jenkins plugin manager and a pop-up will appear that lists the installed plugins that have an implied dependency on the plugin. Those plugins need to be removed or they need to be adopted and upgraded so that their minimum Jenkins version is a recent Jenkins version.
An implied dependency on the WMI Windows Agents plugin is described in the "What's this?" page that pops up from the "Implied" section of the WMI Agents Plugin dependencies page <https://plugins.jenkins.io/windows-slaves/#dependencies>. It says: > Features are sometimes detached (or split off) from Jenkins core and moved into a plugin. Many plugins, like Subversion or JUnit, started as features of Jenkins core. > Plugins that depend on a Jenkins core version before such a plugin was detached from core may or may not actually use any of its features. To ensure that plugins don't break whenever functionality they depend on is detached from Jenkins core, it is considered to have a dependency on the detached plugin if it declares a dependency on a version of Jenkins core before the split. Since that dependency to the detached plugin is not explicitly specified, it is *implied*. > Plugins that don't regularly update which Jenkins core version they depend on will accumulate implied dependencies over time The last statement is what is happening. One or more of the installed plugins can be run on a Jenkins core version before WMI Windows Agents plugin was split from Jenkins core. Those plugins need to either be removed or upgraded. See the list of plugins in the "Implied" section of the dependencies page for WMI Windows Agents plugin <https://plugins.jenkins.io/windows-slaves/#dependencies>. If one or more of those installed plugins is critical to you, you can adopt the plugin <https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/plugin-governance/adopt-a-plugin/> and use the "Improve a Plugin" tutorial <https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/tutorial-improve/update-base-jenkins-version/> to upgrade the minimum required Jenkins version of the plugin. Mark Waite On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 1:16:53 AM UTC-7 christop...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have what we call a "hen-egg-problem" to solve a deprecation warning in > latest LTS: > Jenkins warns about deprecation of the WMI Windows agent plugin > When I want to disable that plugin for a test I get a warning, it might be > unsafe to disable the plugin because other plugins might depend on it. > And indeed, when it is disabled I can't start any jobs through the UI. > > Is there any way to get out of this situation? Otherwise that deprecation > warning does not make much sense to me. > > Thank! > Christoph > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/d83620e7-e6b2-4af9-ad63-b270cacac6d4n%40googlegroups.com.
