On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 8:18 PM Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/27/21 17:02, Felix Miata wrote: > > Chris Murphy composed on 2021-10-27 19:40 (UTC-0400): > > > >> Adam Williamson wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2021-10-27 at 02:32 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > >>>> # rpm -qa | egrep 'grub|prober|shim' > >>>> # > > > >>>> This F34 installation has no need of any bootloader. Yet: > >>>> # dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=35 --skip-broken > --allowerasing --best > >>>> ... > >>>> Error: > >>>> Problem: package grubby-8.40-55.fc35.x86_64 requires > grub2-tools-minimal, but > >>>> none of the providers can be installed > >>>> - conflicting requests > >>>> - package grub2-tools-minimal-1:2.06-6.fc35.x86_64 is filtered out > by exclude > >>>> filtering > > > >>> Do you have soft dependencies enabled? Nothing on my installed system > >>> requires grubby, but two things recommend it: crypto-policies-scripts > >>> and kexec-tools . If soft deps are enabled, either of those could be > >>> pulling it in. > > > >> grubby is in @core in comps > > > > > > Does this translate to I have no option to not let it be installed? > > No, that translates to "feel free to remove grubby". Hopefully the > kernel install scripts are designed to not fail if it's missing.
The scripts are in kernel RPM, no need for grubby these days. But (most) everyone gets grubby out of the box. If you compile the kernel, some component needed to do that might have a dependency on grubby.
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