I believe you can also just rpm -e "package name" which may give you better
results since you can just get rid of one thing in the chain and not the
whole chain.

Matthias Johnson

On Aug 14, 2010 9:47 AM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Friday 13 August 2010 23:14:06 Porkchop wrote:
> So I'm pretty new to yum. Really, with most of m...
Jesse and Sean have narrowed this down, but I think something else is going
on
too: I think Yum is essentially in a panic due to you wanting to remove
Cyrus
because it's the mail storage for Postfix, thus 'breaking email' which is
needed for cron to report, etc.  I have this same problem on Debian systems
when I want to remove Cyrus.

It's logical for a human to want to remove something before installing
something else in it's place, but installer/de-installer systems that do
dependencies don't deal with that well.  So instead, try /installing/ the
thing you /want/ in Cyrus's place.  i.e. try installing dovecot, or courier,
or whatever other mail storage back-end you want in Cyrus's place.  Usually
the tools will then ask "this will force me to remove: cyrus, are you sure?"
if I remember correctly.

Been a while since I ran a system with Yum though.

 -- Chris

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