how to uninstall preload?

Parshwa Murdia b330bkn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 17:50:46 UTC 2010


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:31:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: how to uninstall preload?
> 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.

yum is really having much functions.


Regards,
Parshwa Murdia


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