RE: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff
Johnny Hughes wrote: You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with yum, but with: rpm -e `cat list` But, that is just my advise. I didn't think there was any functional difference between: rpm -e package-name and yum remove package-name Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system? -- Bowie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 at 12:21pm, Bowie Bailey wrote I didn't think there was any functional difference between: rpm -e package-name and yum remove package-name Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system? yum also does dependency checking/resolution. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't think there was any functional difference between: rpm -e package-name and yum remove package-name Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system? Even if that were completely true, it's not a good idea to mix different commands, especially for installing or removing packages. If you use rpm to find what you want to remove, remove it with rpm. And - ditto to what everyone else already said. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff
Johnny Hughes wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with yum, but with: rpm -e `cat list` But, that is just my advise. I didn't think there was any functional difference between: rpm -e package-name and yum remove package-name Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system? There is a huge difference. rpm -e will tell you that you package foo (that you want to install) is required by package bar, so don't install it. Yum will resolve all the dependancies and try to remove foo and bar and anything else that is required to be removed if bar is removed, etc. If you are not careful, you can get things like glibc removed with yum remove. I normally want to resolve my own deps if I remove something. I once DID remove glibc from a machine with yum remove ... and that is NOT pretty to recover from :D That makes sense. I am always very careful about reviewing the dependency list when using yum for installing or removing packages, but I can see how you might accidentally remove something you didn't intend to. -- Bowie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
