Obsolete packages left behind when upgrading rpm packages from JBoss EAP 7.3.6 to 7.4

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
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    • rpm

Issue

When upgrading JBoss EAP 7.3.6 to 7.4.8 as the latest update, the following obsolete packages left in the system. The following two packages are not installed if we install a new JBoss EAP 7.4.8.

eap7-hibernate-entitymanager-5.3.28-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch
eap7-netty-all-4.1.77-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch

Resolution

It is harmless if left. If necessary, these packages can be removed safely by the following commands:

# yum remove eap7-hibernate-entitymanager-5.3.28-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch eap7-netty-all-4.1.77-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch
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 Package                                    Architecture         Version                                              Repository                                        Size
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Removing:
 eap7-hibernate-entitymanager               noarch               5.3.28-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap                 @jb-eap-7.4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms               1.4 k
 eap7-netty-all                             noarch               4.1.77-3.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap                 @jb-eap-7.4-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms                28 k

Transaction Summary
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Remove  2 Packages

Freed space: 30 k
Is this ok [y/N]:

For eap7-netty-all package, we are working on This content is not included.JBEAP-24499 to be automatically removed on upgrade, and it will be fixed in the future release.

Root Cause

Until JBoss EAP 7.3, eap7-hibernate-entitymanager was a dependent eap7-hibernate-envers package.

# rpm -qR eap7-hibernate-envers-5.3.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch
eap7-hibernate-core = 0:5.3.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
eap7-hibernate-entitymanager = 0:5.3.20-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap   <<<===
eap7-runtime
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

Since JBoss EAP 7.4.0, eap7-hibernate-envers does not dependent eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, we can safely remove eap7-hibernate-entitymanager, which is not referenced by any packages.

# rpm -qR eap7-hibernate-envers-5.3.28-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch
eap7-runtime
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

For netty-all package, this package was split into several packages such as eap7-netty-codec, eap7-netty-codec and eap7-netty-tcnative in JBoss EAP 7.4.5 and netty-all is not referenced as a JBoss EAP module.

eap7-wildfly package has eap7-netty-all = 0:4.1.63 as an obsolete in the spec file. eap7-netty-all-4.1.63 is included in JBoss EAP 7.3.10. But if we upgrade from JBoss EAP 7.3.6, netty-all package version of JBoss EAP 7.3.6 is eap7-netty-all-4.1.48-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap.noarch. Hence netty-all package is not automatically removed when upgrading to JBoss EAP 7.4.8.

# rpm -q --obsoletes eap7-wildfly-7.4.8-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap.noarch | grep eap7-netty-all
eap7-netty-all = 0:4.1.63
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