Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Thanks JR, thanks Mikkel:Yes, it will work, as long as no other packages depend on the package you are uninstalling. urpmi and rpm use the same database for installed packages. I have not looked, but I suspect that they both use the same library routines for managing the rpm databese. The way rpm is written, most of the work is done by library routines, with rpm and rpmbuild being "frontends" for the library routines. This was done to make it easy to manage rpms from both the command line interface, and from different GUIs. It is also why the install routines in RPM's are not susposed to require user interaction. (There was a lot of debate about that point on the RPM mailing lists a few years ago.)
one more question: will 'rpm -e' work also if I installed the package with urpmi?
Cheers, Rodolfo
The end result is that you can pick the tool for managing RPMs that fits your needs, and the database will be keep up to date regardless of the tool used.
Mikkel
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