What were you trying to do that didn't work?

`dnf autoremove` attempts to remove installonlypkgs

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

dnf-4.7.0-16.el8_8.noarch
libdnf-0.63.0-14.el8_8.x86_64
dnf-plugins-core-4.0.21-19.el8_8.noarch

dnf-4.14.0-5.el9_2.noarch
dnf-plugins-core-4.3.0-5.el9_2.noarch
libdnf-0.69.0-3.el9_2.x86_64

Steps to reproduce

1. `dnf autoremove` > identify a package that will be removed
2. `echo "installonlypkgs=that-package" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
3.  `dnf autoremove` > still attempts to remove the package

Expected results

       Packages listed in installonlypkgs are never automatically removed by this command.

man dnf
   Autoremove Command
       Command: autoremove
       Aliases for explicit NEVRA matching: autoremove-n, autoremove-na, autoremove-nevra
       dnf [options] autoremove
          Removes all "leaf" packages from the system that were originally installed  as  dependencies
          of user-installed packages, but which are no longer required by any such package.
       Packages listed in installonlypkgs are never automatically removed by this command.

 

Actual results

Note:

This came up when a customers dnf autoremove command attempted to remove kernel packages. Our only suspicion is that they ran dnf mark remove on the kernel packages, which then allowed dnf to `autoremove` them. But that shouldn't be the case regardless as these are installonlypkgs.

RHEL 10 (dnf-4.19.0-2.el10.noarch) is affected.