[WBEL-users] How to uninstall an rpm package which has dependencies?

[bishop]

How easily you toss about --nodeps!  Oh, the abuse to the RPMdb!  That's 
the absolute best way to cause yourself all manner of grief.  The 
number-two way, of course, is to install software by tarball:  the RPMdb 
'knows' that openssh is version 3.6.1p2, but the software is really 
3.9p1.  It causes HUGE problems when you're actually building new 
software on such a broken system, but even under normal use it causes 
the second-most number of calls into the call centre.

Luckily I don't work that call centre;  I'd instruct people to 
immediately rpm-e their rpm installation, for it's more useless with 
each new hand-hacked package some cowboy puts on after that.

   (what, you think you'd escape a rant?)

Jean, try using 'yum remove openssh'.  It'll remove openssh and 
everything which depends on it.  At the least, it will tell you which 
RPMs you will affect by removing openssh.  In this case, the list is short:

> [root@fishy /]# yum remove openssh
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> xpdf-1-2.02-8.i386.hdr    100% |=========================| 9.6 kB    00:00
> Resolving dependencies
> ...Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [erase: openssh 3.6.1p2-33.30.1.i386]
> I will erase these to satisfy the dependencies:
> [deps: openssh-server 3.6.1p2-33.30.1.i386]
> [deps: openssh-askpass-gnome 3.6.1p2-33.30.1.i386]
> [deps: openssh-askpass 3.6.1p2-33.30.1.i386]
> [deps: desktop-printing 0.1.10-15.1.i386]
> [deps: netdump 0.6.11-3.i386]
> [deps: kdebase 6:3.1.3-5.4.i386]
> [deps: user-account-cvs 1.2-5.i386]
> [deps: openssh-clients 3.6.1p2-33.30.1.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]:

You may just want to roll an upgrade RPM for openssh and install that 
instead.  That way, your upgrade won't cause any complaints.

Well, that's not too hard:

> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/SRPMS.extras/openssh-3.9p1-1.src.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-clients-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-server-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-askpass-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm

Mind you, I haven't examined, compared or tested this RPM, but I did 
hand-assess the patches and it did roll something valid.  Now all I need 
is the chroot patch.  Here are the ones I found;  which are you using?

  - homedir /home/./username patch
> http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/download/osshChroot-3.9p1.diff

  - chrootuser config option
> http://majikal.dyn.dhs.org/projekts/openssh_chroot_patch/openssh-3.5p1+chroot.patch

Let me know and I'll have something for you to test soon afterward.

  - bish

Graham Purcocks wrote:

> No nothing wrong. You can't uninstall openssh as the packages it 
> mentions depends on it. So you either force uninstall or remove the 
> dependant packages as well at the same time. I suspect you want the 
> first. Use --nodeps.
> 
> Try reading 'man rpm' on the section on ERASEING packages. This may give 
> you more insight.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Jean Lee wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I think that what I want is not so hard but I really don't know how to 
>> do it.
>>
>> My problem is that I want to unintsall openssh-3.6.1p2 which is 
>> installed as an rpm package and then install openssh-3.9p1-chroot 
>> which is a tarball (it is a patched version of  Openssh-3.9p1 with 
>> added chroot functionnality).
>>
>> Well, I tried first to uninstall openssh-3.6.1p2 with :
>> rpm -e openssh
>> and this command failed due to dependencies to other packages : 
>> openssh-server, openssh-client, netdump and a few others related to 
>> openssh...
>>
>> I'm sure that I am doing something wrong. Perhaps that I can firstly 
>> uninstall the packages related to openssh but the one with netdump is 
>> probably not recommended.. Moreover, I tried to uninstall 
>> openssh-server and it failed due to a dependency to netdump-server.
>>
>> What is the right way? Do I have really to uninstall every package 
>> which has a dependency before uninstalling openssh or is there another 
>> way which ensure that nothing will be broken?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Jean
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