Re: Good uninstallation practice?

[Luke Macken <lmacken redhat com>]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:17 +0200, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's the correct way to manually uninstall a package that failed to
> > uninstall during an update? For example, during the update of
> > hal-cups-utils with today's Rawhide, I'm getting:
> >
> >    Cleanup   : hal-cups-utils               #####################
> > [224/257]
> > error: %postun(hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2.ia64) scriptlet failed, exit
> > status 1
> >
> > I now have hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2 and hal-cups-utils-0.6.0-1 installed
> > on my system and would like to uninstall the old one.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > 	Émeric
>
> rpm -e hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2

This will still cause the %postun script to fail.  Adding the --nopostun 
option seems to do the trick.

luke