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

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Aug 14 10:53:50 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:11 -0400, H. S. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To install nvidia driver, I had to download kernel srpm 
> (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.src.rpm).
> 1. Then I installed this using "rpm -Uvh <rpm name>"
> 2. The I did: "/usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 
> kernel-2.6.spec"

Actually you didn't need to do that.

> After this, I also had to install kernel-devel using yum to get nvidia 
> compiled.

That should have been sufficient - no need for the kernel SRPM.

> Anyhow, my question is, I have the nvidia driver and I wanted to undo 
> whatever was done by Steps 1 and 2 above. I have just done:
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpmbuild --rmsource kernel-2.6.spec
> 
> which got rid of all the files from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE. But I still 
> seem to have the kernel source in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD:
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD# ls -l
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Aug 13 15:08 kernel-2.6.12
> 
> 
> How do I remove this 'the Redhat way'? I don't want to try "rm -rf" 
> unless I know this wouldn't somehow mess with the RPM database of the 
> machine.

SRPMS aren't entered into the database. You can safely just do:

# cd /usr/src/redhat
# rm -rf BUILD/* SOURCES/* SPECS/*

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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