[ovirt-devel] Re: [VDSM] Why hooks are required for installing vdsm?

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Trying to update vdsm master, my update script fail with: > > installing... > error: Failed dependencies: > vdsm = 4.30.0-429.git05bfb8731.fc28 is needed by (installed) > vdsm-hook-fcoe-4.30.0-429.git05bfb8731.fc28.noarch > vdsm = 4.30.0-429.git05bfb8731.fc28 is needed by (installed) > vdsm-hook-ethtool-options-4.30.0-429.git05bfb8731.fc28.noarch > > I tried to remove these hooks, since I'm not interested in any of them, but > removing them try to remove 136 packages including libvirt. > > Why do we have these dependencies? hook should be optional. > > Who owns these hooks? git log can tell you the usual answer: I'm to blame. These hooks implement documented features. I suspect that something very basic - such as the ovirt-host package - requires them to ensure that they exist on each host.