Re: RPM question

["Anand Buddhdev" <arb anand org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mobeen Azhar" <moby mobsternet com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:44 PM
Subject: RPM question


> rpm -qa | grep XXX shows package XXX installed.  I need to remove XXX from
> the RPM database without making any other changes to the system.  In other
> words, I just want package XXX to stop from showing up in rpm -qa but I do
> not want rpm to uninstall anything from the box.  How can this be done?

Use the 'update database only' feature of RPM. See the manpage for the
correct option.