On Dec 2, 2014 4:50 AM, "Clay Stuckey" <claystuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wrote two manifests for RHEL systems. One removed syslog. The other
installed rsyslog. The syslog removal followed a tragic dependency tree
removing RPMs such as coreutils, rpm, yum and pam. Once the servers
rebooted, they were left in an unusable state. I had to boot in rescue
mode, manually install files to get RPM going and reinstall about 300 RPMs
that were removed.

Ouch :-0

> Is there some way to blacklist the removal of certain critical RPMs that
might be found in a dependency tree?

There is at least one yum plugin for this. Including that level of
system-specific detail in the yum provider does not seem maintainable.

Wil

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