battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 11 15:00:10 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:53 +0930, Tim wrote: 
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 22:45 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> > Haven't done it with the rpm command, but when I'm doing a rm on a
> > list, I tend to just use a GUI editor and paste rm in front of the
> > file names. That way I don't have a loop that I have to test with
> > dry-run sytax.
> 
> Sidestepping the fact that you don't don't rm packages, but rpm -e them,
> you will need to remove several packages simultaneously, because of
> dependency issues.
> 
> i.e. you wouldn't do 
> 
>  rpm -e package-one
>  rpm -e package-two
>  rpm -e package-three
> 
> When one package is a dependency for another, you'd have to do
> 
>  rpm -e package-one package-two package-three
How about using the --nodeps option of rpm? 
> 


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