Bug 79094

On my servers, I typically have most partitions mounted read-only. On one server
here, I uninstalled a bunch of rpms w/o remembering to remount /usr and /boot r/w.

The rpm commands removed packages from the rpm db, yet left the files on the
system (since the filesystems were mounted read-only), but silently failed to
let me know that packages were failing to uninstall

[root@hanuman root]# rpm -e pine
[root@hanuman root]# rpm -e arpwatch ash
[root@hanuman root]# rpm -e hesiod lha
[root@hanuman root]# rpm -e nasm nss_ldap open pax pdksh postgresql
postgresql-libs postgresql-server                       
warning: /etc/ldap.conf saved as /etc/ldap.conf.rpmsave
/usr/share/info/dir: Read-only file system
error: %preun(nasm-0.98.34-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
[root@hanuman root]# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (ro)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hda3 on /usr type ext3 (ro)
[root@hanuman root]# rpm -q pine
package pine is not installed
[root@hanuman root]# /usr/bin/pin<tab>
pine                pinegpg-install     pinky
pine-spellcheck     pinepgpgpg-install  
pinegpg             pinfo               
[root@hanuman root]#             

At a minimum, I'd expect the rpm command to give me some sort of error when it
fails to remove the files....