On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> 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.