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

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

[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

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,