rpm FC10

[stan]

Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to clean the rpm packages after a failure in the final update of 
> Fedora 10.
> disk full !
> Every times I make more than 15 rpm -e "package"
> the database is mess up.
> I need to run a rpm --rebuilddb.
> Why ?
> I have the same problem with 2 machines !!
> 
> Regards.
> 
Are you keeping old packages around.  Try yum clean packages to see if it erases anything and frees up some disk space.

In your situation I would try using yum for the removal too.  I run F10 and have hundreds of updates with their 
corresponding changes to the RPM database without any issues at all.  But I don't use RPM directly, it is called from 
yum.  If this is not caused by any other issue it is a bug in RPM  (are you using --nodeps option to erase packages even 
if they have dependencies?).  The disk full problem could be causing this due to space problems for the database also.

yum remove <list of packages here in the format of just the name e.g. evolution thunderbird gcc >

Yum will inform you of any dependency problems.