Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Sent: Aug 26, 2010 1:42 PM To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: rpm -e question
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:48 -0700, JD wrote:
Running rpm -e <pkgname> does not delete the binaries and other files that were installed by the package; and I see no option to rpm in the man page to remove the package's files. So far I have had to remove them manually after I remove the package. But that is a hit and miss operaton because I cannot always remember to do
rpm -ql --provides <pkgname>
How about: yum erase <pkgname>
[ka-snip]
That only works if if the package was installed using yum or yum history was manually updated to include the package.
A good example of this NOT happening is if you use the RPMFusion packages per their instructions.
Thus using rpm -e should not affect yum in this case.
However, using rpm -q or rpm -ql followed by rpm -e to remove a package installed by yum will leave a dangling entry in yum history.
James McKenzie