F36: tracker for package additions/removals

[dustymabe]

This issue will help track package additions and removals when compared to the previous major version of Fedora. Usually the additions/removals are a result of changing dependencies in named packages in our manifests. Most of the time the changes are intentional, but sometimes they can be unintended and we'd like to document changes and reasoning here.

• Removed:
  cups-libs
libvarlink-util
mozjs78
• Added:
  aardvark-dns
authselect
authselect-libs
libbpf
mozjs91
netavark
openldap-compat
pam-libs
xxhash-libs

[dustymabe]

• conversion to explicit package declaration: acl
  • acl was dropped as a dependency of systemd.
  • we added it as a named package in FCOS to keep it because some users might depend on it for Acess Control List manipulation.

[dustymabe]

• addition: aardvark-dns
  • aardvark-dns was added as a named dependency to keep existing (optional) functionality in podman that provides name resolution based on container name.
    • [rawhide] manifest: add aardvark-dns to package list for podman v4 fedora-coreos-config#1519
    • manifests: apply podman-v4.yaml manifest on F36+ fedora-coreos-config#1577

[dustymabe]

• addition: authselect, authselect-libs
  • These are now mandatory for basic functionality in in Fedora. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Make_Authselect_Mandatory

[dustymabe]

• conversion to explicit package declaration: containernetworking-plugins:
  • containernetworking-plugins was dropped as a dependency of podman
    • traditional yum based systems wouldn't uninstall it on upgrade even though it was no longer "required"
  • we added it as a named package in FCOS to keep it because upgrading nodes that are currently using CNI networking (pretty much all of them) still need it or their containers won't start.
  • container-networking-plugins and netavark both provide container-network-stack so in order to get them both installed we have to name both of them in the manifests.

[dustymabe]

• removal: cups-libs
  • This one was a dependency of samba-client-libs in Fedora 35 but that is no longer the case.

$ rpm -e cups-libs
error: Failed dependencies:
	libcups.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) samba-client-libs-2:4.15.5-1.fc35.x86_64

[dustymabe]

• addition: libbpf
  • This is an added dependency of iproute in Fedora 36

[dustymabe]

• addition: netavark
  • This provides container-network-stack which is a dependency of containers-common where netavark is recommended in Fedora 36 (podman 4.X).
  • Because we name containernetworking-plugins in our manifests we also need to now specify netavark in the manifests in order to pull them both in.

[dustymabe]

• addition: openldap-compat
  • This is a new depedency (subpackage) that provides libraries needed by:
    - libldb, gnupg2, adcli, sssd-*, and sudo

[dustymabe]

• addition: pam-libs
  • This is a new subpackage of pam that contains shared libraries which are needed by pretty much every critical system software.

[dustymabe]

• addition: xxhash-libs
  • This is a new dependency of rsync.

[core@cosa-devsh ~]$ rpm -e xxhash-libs
error: Failed dependencies:
        libxxhash.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) rsync-3.2.3-14.fc36.x86_64

[dustymabe]

• removal: mozjs78
• addition: mozjs91

This is just a newer version of a library relied on by polkit.

[dustymabe]

• removal: libvarlink-util
  • Explicitly removed from the package list. See Drop libvarlink-util from package set #1130

[dustymabe]

Closing this now since we're well past F36.