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

[Jean Lee]

Well, I really made something wrong.

I was on the openssh website and didn't find the tar.gz files for 
openssh-client, openssh-server, openssh-askpass and 
openssh-askpass-gnome. :) sorry, I'm a newbie.
Bishop, how did you do to produce these files ? Is it something with 
this srpms file?
If the rpm files are produced by the srpms one. How can I apply a patch 
to the tar.gz file and then create the srpms file from this patched 
tar.gz file and then finally obtain my rpm files?

What do I have installed  (Installation explained in my previous mail)?

Thank you for your answers because I think that I'm a bit lost.

Jean

Jean Lee wrote:

> Thank to all of you for your great help.
> This mail is just to give a back and keep a trace,
>
> I have created an rpm of the patched openssh 
> (openssh-3.9p1-chroot.tar.gz) with the checkinstall binary. I called 
> it openssh-3.9p1-1.i386.rpm and checkinstall automatically installed it.
> I didn't do a  'yum remove openssh-3.6.1p2' because I didn't want to 
> brake some dependencies.
>
> When I type 'rpm -q openssh', I have a good return : openssh-3.9p1-1
> but if I try to erase it 'rpm -e openssh', I have the following return :
>
> error: Failed dependencies :
>    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
> openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
>    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
> openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
>    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
> openssh-client-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
>    openssh = 3.6.1p2-33.30.1 is needed by (installed) 
> openssh-server-3.6.1p2-33.30.1
>
> Another thing : If I type 'whereis sshd', the return is :
> /usr/sbin/sshd and /usr/local/sbin/sshd .
> It doesn't seem to be very good..
>
> I will try now to upgrade these 4 tools with standard openssh-3.9p1 
> and see what will come.....
>
> Jean
>
> Randy Kelsoe wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As I suggested in a previous thread of yours, get the checkinstall 
>> package and install it. Then you can untar the openssh-3.9p1-chroot 
>> package, do your './configure', then 'make' and then instead of doing 
>> your normal 'make install', run 'checkinstall' which will create and 
>> install an RPM package for you. That way, if you have problems with 
>> the new package, you can remove it with the 'rpm -e' command. When 
>> you need to upgrade the package, it will be a lot easier to let rpm 
>> do the upgrade and keep track of the files.
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In your case, I would recommend trying the checkinstall method above 
>> first. If you really want to get rid of the dependencies, you can rpm 
>> -e more than one package at a time:
>>
>>    rpm -e openssh openssh-server openssh-client netdump
>>
>> yum is also handy for this:
>>
>>    yum remove packagename
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>
>>> Jean
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