Removing package via "old" UI could have trashed my system

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OK, OK, I still keep using the old UI, because I’m an old f@rt who’s ben using NS for some time now. Maybe this experience my scare me away from this forever.
After getting a new UPS that has it’s own monitoring software, I went to remove the UPS package from NS. Selecting remove from the old UI came up with the following list of packages to remove:

Modules to remove:
nethserver-nut
Packages to remove:
collectd-nut
nethserver-collectd
nethserver-nut
OpenIPMI
OpenIPMI-libs
OpenIPMI-modalias
PyYAML
cockpit
cockpit-bridge
cockpit-storaged
cockpit-system
cockpit-ws
collectd
collectd-ping
collectd-rrdtool
davfs2
dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
device-mapper-multipath
device-mapper-multipath-libs
dosfstools
duplicity
expect
freeipmi
gdisk
glib-networking
gsettings-desktop-schemas
gssproxy
iscsi-initiator-utils
iscsi-initiator-utils-iscsiuio
jq
json-glib
libatasmart
libblockdev
libblockdev-crypto
libblockdev-fs
libblockdev-loop
libblockdev-lvm
libblockdev-mdraid
libblockdev-part
libblockdev-swap
libblockdev-utils
libbytesize
libgudev1
libmodman
liboping
libproxy
libreport-filesystem
librsync
libtool-ltdl
libudisks2
libusb
libverto-tevent
libyaml
mdadm
ncftp
neon
net-snmp-libs
nethserver-backup-data
nethserver-cgp
nethserver-cockpit
nethserver-lang-cockpit
nethserver-subscription
nethserver-subscription-inventory
nethserver-subscription-ui
nfs-utils
nut
nut-client
oathtool
oniguruma
pakchois
perl-Convert-Base32
perl-Sub-Uplevel
perl-Test-Exception
perl-Test-Simple
pexpect
puppet-agent
python-GnuPGInterface
python-fasteners
python-paramiko
python-pwquality
python2-PyDrive
python2-boto
python2-google-api-client
python2-keyring
python2-oauth2client
python2-pyasn1-modules
python2-rsa
python2-uritemplate
quota
quota-nls
restic
rpcbind
rrdtool
sshpass
tcl
tcp_wrappers
udisks2
udisks2-iscsi
udisks2-lvm2
volume_key-libs
yajl

Whoa, what the… Somethings not right there. So with the “new” (OK, current :grinning:) UI it only removed the following, which was kinda a relief, because the Cockpit UI doesn’t give you a list of what it’s going to remove first, to let you see in advance:

Dec 15 22:10:02 Erased: nethserver-nut-1.5.5-1.ns7.noarch
Dec 15 22:10:03 Erased: nut-2.7.2-4.el7.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:05 Erased: OpenIPMI-modalias-2.0.27-1.el7.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:05 Erased: OpenIPMI-2.0.27-1.el7.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:06 Erased: OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.27-1.el7.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:06 Erased: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.el7_9.1.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:07 Erased: freeipmi-1.5.7-3.el7.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:08 Erased: libtool-ltdl-2.4.2-22.el7_3.x86_64
Dec 15 22:10:08 Erased: 1:libusb-0.1.4-3.el7.x86_64

So there’s no chance to abort the removal if the UI is over ambitious.

Cheers.

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IMVHO it’s still strange that IPMI implementations are gone with nut.

Would you please post the output from shell of yum autoremove ? Pretty please don’t confirm the package removal i’d only would like to see if there’s any old… tool laying around the server.

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[root@Nethserver ~]# yum autoremove
Loaded plugins: changelog, elrepo, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
No Packages marked for removal
[root@Nethserver ~]#

But, just for sh*ts and giggles I went to see what nethserver-nut installs:

Installing:
nethserver-nut noarch 1.5.5-1.ns7 sb-nethserver-updates 887 k
Installing for dependencies:
freeipmi x86_64 1.5.7-3.el7 sb-base 2.0 M
libtool-ltdl x86_64 2.4.2-22.el7_3 sb-base 49 k
libusb x86_64 1:0.1.4-3.el7 sb-base 19 k
net-snmp-libs x86_64 1:5.7.2-49.el7_9.1 sb-updates 751 k
nut x86_64 2.7.2-4.el7 sb-epel 1.6 M

There’s your answer about why IPMI was removed. Although it does look like a switch from OpenIPMI to freeipmi took place at some point.

Cheers.