how to uninstall preload?

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 15:31:43 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 20 July 2010 04:39 AM, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> 2010/7/20 Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>:
>> >  On Tuesday 20 July 2010 01:19 AM, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
>>> >>  A simple
>>> >>
>>> >>  su -c "rpm -e preload"
>>> >>
>>> >>  will also work.
>> >
>> >  However that is not recommended, at least that is what I know. This
>> >  leaves yum in a state where it is unaware of the removed rpm.
> This is wrong. yum is just a frontend for rpm.

Yum also maintains a database of its own, that is how we get any of the 
newer features like yum history. Using rpm directly makes the 2 
databases inconsistent with each other.

http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7834.html

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