Re: [CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

2008-03-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Craig White wrote on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:26:04 -0700:

 rpm -e --justdb some_package

I had hoped for a solution that automagically removes those 50 packages. 
Thanks, anyway, I'll dig up all the packages from the yum log and try it.

 rpm --help

It's easy to overlook functionality in that long list :-(

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Re: [CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

2008-03-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:16 +0100:

 I'll dig up all the packages from the yum log and try it.

That still fails for a few packages because of the order I got from the 
log. I was able to erase all of them from the rpm db now. But the whole 
thing very much looks like a bug, or actually two bugs, in the 
uninstallation procedure. I now got the errors again that I had neglected 
to write down earlier.

rpm -e tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.89407: line 1: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or 
directory
error: %postun(tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386) scriptlet 
failed, exit status 127

rpm -e tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32859: line 5: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or 
directory
error: %postun(tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386) scriptlet 
failed, exit status 127

rpm -e tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99715: line 5: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or 
directory
error: %postun(tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386) 
scriptlet failed, exit status 127

in consequence some other packages could not be removed because of 
dependencies

To me that looks like two bugs:

1. several packages all want to remove the same file that obviously got 
already removed by another package in the chain

2. the postuninstall scriptlet lets the whole erase procedure fail because 
of a missing file, I think that's rather drastic

If that is a bug, where to report?

Kai

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[CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

2008-03-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I did a yum groupremove Java and that failed somehow. Yum listed all 
group members as erased, but some rpm packages failed because of missing 
config files or so. As a result none of the 50 packages were removed from 
the rpm database, but all of their files seem to have been removed.
How can I clean them out from the rpm db?

Kai

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Re: [CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

2008-03-25 Thread Craig White

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 01:09 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
 I did a yum groupremove Java and that failed somehow. Yum listed all 
 group members as erased, but some rpm packages failed because of missing 
 config files or so. As a result none of the 50 packages were removed from 
 the rpm database, but all of their files seem to have been removed.
 How can I clean them out from the rpm db?

rpm -e --justdb some_package

rpm --help

Craig

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