Bug 55837

Summary: GnoRPM seems to use --allmatches --nodeps to remove packages by default.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Kloiber <ckloiber>
Component: gnorpmAssignee: Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Chris Kloiber 2001-11-07 16:05:27 UTC
Description of Problem:

Customer used up2date to install latest errata kernel (2.4.9-13) and
verified it's functionality, then decided to remove the stock 2.4.7-10
using GnoRPM. He called us saying that grub.conf and parts of fstab weere
missing. Investigation showed that he had NO kernels installed. He said
there was no message warning him of any dependencies (not confirned by me).
Fortunately I was able to get some working kernels installed for him (the
network and loop modules were in use at the time)

Expected Results:

Do not rely on --allmatches --nodeps on an rpm -e, instead always use the
version number on an rpm -e (ie: rpm -e kernel-2.4.9-13) and if there are
dependencies warn the customer and offer the --nodeps option (again I have
not confirmed this part).

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2001-11-12 21:24:35 UTC
Ouch. That does indeed sound pretty bad.
I'll report this upstream. The maintainers are quite responsive.


Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2001-11-12 21:49:28 UTC
In gnome bugzilla at:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64419

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2002-07-23 16:09:06 UTC
Gnorpm has been deprecated for the next version of RedHat. It will be replaced
with a package called redhat-config-packages.