On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:50, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:52:15PM -0700, Christian Goetze wrote: > > > Well, I filed Bug nr. 119286, which got closed out as "wontfix", with > > > the laconic comment: > > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From jbj@xxxxxxxxxx 2004-04-07 12:54 > > > ------- Using --prefix to qualify upgrade/erasure ain't the right thing > > > to do. > > > > Well, what _is_ the right thing to do, and how do I selectively erase a > > particular rpm without erasing all of them? > > The right thing is not to have multiple identical rpms only differentiated by > prefix installed. > > In rpm-python addErase can take an int of the hdr offset - obtainable from > mi.instance, completely untested - but you may be able to do something like: > > import rpm > ts=rpm.ts() > mi = ts.dbMatch(rpm.RPMTAG_NAME, "relocator") > mi.pattern(rpm.RPMTAG_PREFIXES, rpm.RPMMIRE_DEFAULT, "/usr/opt") > for h in mi: > instance = mi.instance() > ts.addErase(instance) > yum does this now for matching rpms to remove. it works fine for doing more precise erasures. -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
