rpm -e taking ages

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 11, 2004, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 11:32 +0100, Paul wrote:
>> rpm -e kernel-2.6.5-1.315 kernel-source-2.6.5-1.315
>> kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.315

> This is due to the run of hardlink in the %postun of the kernel package
> to hardlink headers under /lib/modules

Err...  Does hardlink really run after `rpm -e'?  I can't see that it
makes any sense.  It sure does make sense to run it after installing
new kernels, but after removing them?!?  What am I missing?

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