On Wednesday, Jul 20th 2005 at 10:39 +0200, quoth Thorsten Geelhaar: =>Hello, => =>i had the problem that when something goes wrong by Installation or =>Deisntallation and files or database entries for the package already deleted, =>i dont know how i could erase the rpm entry. =>The deinstallion script ask for files or database entries that didnt exist =>anymore. =>The only way i found is to copy the asking files to the locations the =>deinstallation routine wants it. But that is to complicate in some cases, =>cause i already had to rebuild database entries and so on. => =>Thanks Thorsten If you know what the files are and you can just manually delete them (worst case) then all that would be left would be rpm -e --justdb pkgname No? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
