remove an installed rpm during rpm -i

[devzero2000]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

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> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Valery Reznic wrote:
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> > Did you try to use Obsolete tag ?
> >
>
> a couple of things about the whole thread
>
> 1. obsolete does not work when you're rpm -i'ing pkgs. Only rpm -U
>
> 2. modifying the rpmdb from a %post or %pre is an unsafe idea and prone to
> causing things to "end badly".
>

It depends. If Jeff tell it is possible to have an "RPM bundle" (e.g. an rpm
that install rpm(s) itself) then perhaps
it is not so unsafe in first place. I personally have written un rpm that
use yum for pull update.

Regards

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