Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 84556
No no0b friendly way to remove old kernels or third party rpm's
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:22 EDT
Description of problem: I know this is more of a request rather than a bug, but I am fallowing the direction of one of your QA guys at LWE. They told me to report it here and you all would forwared it to the proper place. :) point:1 After several kernel updateds there is no no0b friendly way to view and remove old kernels in 8.0 that goes for third party packages as well(GnoRPM). I know how to rpm -e package.rpm but for people new to Linux/RedHat this may get people frustrated wanting to clean up their box. point2: Also the pkg managers ability to read installed packages is faulty at times. This may be on bugzilla already but as su - and doing an rpm -e you still get a package is not installed is much a pane in the arse. yes I did an rpm --rebuilddb. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0 Point2 seems to reflect all updated kernels as far back as 7.2 How reproducible: install 8.0 Steps to Reproduce: for point 2 1.install rpm ie via su - rpm -ivh Mplayer*rpm 2.su - rpm -e mplayer.somenumbers.somearch.rpm 3. mplayer.somenumbers.somearch.rpm is not installed Actual results: installd but not reported in rpm db Expected results:install uninstall via rpm Additional info: Point1 is waht I realy want to convay as a needed feature to any new releace, but point2 is a little troubleing and I expect it is being addressed.
What's wrong with the ouput of rpm -q kernel
I just saying Joe no0b needs a graphical way to view what is installed in his/her system to start out. For a biz application I can understand not having that much cotrole or even having users have root access, but to some new person at home thinking of switching to Red Hat it is a lot to learn from the get go and will frustrate people rather than winning them over. Hell install Slackware and you are forced to learn or sink, but most people won't go that route. They will buy a Mac or reinstall Windoze.
> rpm -e mplayer.somenumbers.somearch.rpm Fred, try just "rpm -e mplayer.somenumbers" -- drop the ".somearch.rpm". I can't remember "rpm -e foobar.version.arch.rpm" *ever* working. (Actually, that would be a nice enhancement to have.)
Package selection/installation/removal is being redone for FC5. The mechanism to find/remove packages for the end user graphically will be provided.