Re: Dependency aware package removal.

[Awais Riaz <synked yahoo com>]

But what it can't do (and what I'm after) is remove
all the packages depending on that package (and so
on...). The same applies to package groups. Without
this functionality package removal can be quite a
tedious job.

I'm thinking of using yum with the local rpmdb to do
this. AFAIK, using yum with the local rpmdb and
up2date  
both should cause no problems. This way I can use yum
to install and remove packages and dependencies and
up2date to download the latest errata and updates.


Cheers,

Awais
  

--- Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 duke edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 at 3:24am, Awais Riaz wrote
> 
> > I'm new to RHEL4 and have a question that has been
> > bothering me.
> > 
> > Is there a proper 'Redhat way' of removing
> packages in
> > a dependency aware manner on systems without X
> (and
> > hence no system-config-packages)? Coming from a
> > background using apt and yum, I find it strange
> that
> > up2date doesn't provide this functionality. I've
> been
> > taking this functionality for granted for years
> with
> > other package management systems and am suprised
> not
> > to find an out-of-the-box, all-in-one,  fully
> > functional package management solution in RHEL4.
> Am I
> > missing something? 
> 
> Erm, 'rpm -e' will refuse to remove a package if
> others depend on it.
> 
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> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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