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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal (late): Enable EarlyOOM
From:       Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro () gnome ! org>
Date:       2020-08-04 13:48:47
Message-ID: B1LJEQ.WTMK08XRJTP02 () posteo ! net
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 10:45 am, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> 
wrote:
> Yesterday, I have updated my Rawhide and wondered why `dnf autoremove`
> would want to remove earlyoom just to discover that soft dependency in
> earlyoom was dropped [1] and hence nothing requires earlyoom and DNF 
> is
> free to remove this package (and it is possibly not installed anymore 
> on
> upgraded systems).
> 
> Therefore I wonder what is the status of EarlyOOM. Should I let the
> package go? If not, then the situation should be fixed somehow, 
> probably
> either by reverting the revert or adding the dependency into
> fedora-release as was proposed elsewhere.

We're tracking this problem in 
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/138 and 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1814306. It's high priority 
for Workstation, but it's blocked on dnf. We've been working around it 
in an ad-hoc way for each package we add in a different way in every 
release. In this case, I removed our original workaround in 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/earlyoom/pull-request/2 because we 
intended to replace it with a new workaround, 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/fork/catanzaro/rpms/fedora-release/c/a0df346ba7851111363adccdedeab4cc5d3edb24?branch=master. \
 However, we decided the new workaround was a little outrageous and we 
would just wait for a dnf fix instead. In the meantime, if you want to 
keep earlyoom, don't use autoremove. In the meantime, it will get 
pulled in on upgrades to F32 due to the old workaround, but it's not 
currently being pulled in on upgrades to F33.

Michael

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