installed kernel.2.6.12 srpm, how do I remove all of it

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Aug 14 17:23:03 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:30 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 07:19 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:

> Installing an SRPM does not affect the RPM database at all. That
> includes the list of installed packages. There will be no kernel-XXX
> package to remove as a result of installing a kernel-XXX.src.rpm.
> 
> Paul.

This is why I stay on this list.  I often learn things that I otherwise
would not know until I needed to use them.

I know that installed packages are put into the rpm database, and was
not aware until now that the source packages were excluded from the
database.

Thanks Paul for that tidbit.




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