Unable to remove packages before upgrade to F27

[Rick Stevens]

Ok, now I need some help.

I'm trying to upgrade a machine to F27 but the upgrade process keeps
bitching about two packages: ICAClient-13.3.0.344519-0.x86_64 and
aether-ant-tasks-1:1.0.1-6.fc26.noarch.

The first one does not show up as installed in dnf, rpm, yum or pkcon
and I surely don't recall installing it.

The second one shows up as installed in dnf from the command line (a
local package), but it will NOT allow me to remove it:

[root@golem4 bin]# dnf list aether-ant-tasks
Last metadata expiration check: 2:34:52 ago on Thu 16 Nov 2017 03:29:16
PM PST.
Installed Packages
aether-ant-tasks.noarch               1:1.0.1-6.fc26
@@commandline

[root@golem4 bin]# dnf remove aether-ant-tasks
No match for argument: aether-ant-tasks
Error: No packages marked for removal.

I see tracebacks in the /var/log/dnf.log regarding this.

GRRRRRR! I've rebuilt the rpmdb and tried to "--exclude=" those
packages and nothing works. Any ideas?
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