rpm FC10

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, stan wrote:

> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I need to clean the rpm packages after a failure in the final update of 
>> Fedora 10.
>> disk full !
>> Every times I make more than 15 rpm -e "package"
>> the database is mess up.
>> I need to run a rpm --rebuilddb.
>> Why ?
>> I have the same problem with 2 machines !!
>> 
>> Regards.
>> 
> Are you keeping old packages around.  Try yum clean packages to see if it 
> erases anything and frees up some disk space.
>
> In your situation I would try using yum for the removal too.  I run F10 and 
> have hundreds of updates with their corresponding changes to the RPM database 
> without any issues at all.  But I don't use RPM directly, it is called from 
> yum.  If this is not caused by any other issue it is a bug in RPM  (are you 
> using --nodeps option to erase packages even if they have dependencies?). 
> The disk full problem could be causing this due to space problems for the 
> database also.
>
> yum remove <list of packages here in the format of just the name e.g. 
> evolution thunderbird gcc >
>
I also try to use: yum-complete-transaction
but I do experience the same behavior !

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