2 little rpms . One named A one named B....

["Dolan, Myles" <DolanM logica com>]

Consider two rpms .
rpm B is installed sometime after A

rpm B's filelist contains a subset of the files listed in A. In effect B is
a patch for  A

I want to 'reverse' B so that the files in B are as left just as they were
just after A was installed.

I do not want to have to reinstall all those files in A as this will involve
user stopping all proccesses involving  rpm A's files

The procedure that I was trying was a
de-install B
de--install A with --justdb option 
re-install A 

Its at the 're-install a' stage that the problem arises   because an rpm -i
on A allways wants to replace all A's files . I cant find any option to
avoid this and I get errors like the following
can't unlink /apps/picasso/bin/aamanager-RPMDELETE: Text file busy . Even
though the file aamaager shouldnt really need to be touched in this
operation.

Any thoughts at all?

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