Fedora Server upgrade from 43 to 44 fails with openhpi error

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I have no clue what openhpi even is, or why it’s installed but apparently it’s killing my server upgrade…

The bug is reported here: 2452216 – dnf system-upgrade to Fedora 44 fails because net-snmp-libs from Fedora 43 is not considered part of the distupgrade repository when openhpi is installed

But there’s no “workaround” section there. Has anyone found a workaround yet? What would happen if I simply uninstalled this openhpi package? I have no idea what it does, but I don’t want to break my system by uninstalling it.

EDIT: Ok, it seems to indicate that it’s only for rack- and chassis-mounted servers that need hardware monitoring? This server is neither of those things – it’s in a standard mid-tower case, and I’m not running any kind of remote hardware-monitoring software on any other machines… It won’t affect the Plex Media Server I have on here, right? Did Plex install this for some reason? Or is it just a default package that Fedora Server installs?

Thanks,

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Well, since I had an image backup of my boot drive that I could always restore if this all went to hell, I figured I’d just go ahead and delete the openhpi package and then do the upgrade.

It worked fine… Plex still seems to work (that’s what I use this server for) so I’m happy.