[WBEL-users] How to uninstall an rpm package which has dependencies?
bishop
bishop@platypus.bc.ca
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:51:31 -0800
Hey Jean,
The SRPM (Source RPM) contains the necessary code to build RPMs. It's
really just a cpio of the tar.gz, some diffs and a build script (.spec).
Building the RPMs is done with
rpm -i openssh.src.rpm
rpmbuild -ba openssh.spec
Here's the current patch for the spec file to integrate the chroot diff:
> --- /home/bishop/RPM/SPECS/openssh.spec~ 2004-11-09 03:35:49.000000000 -0800
> +++ /home/bishop/RPM/SPECS/openssh.spec 2004-11-09 10:15:59.000000000 -0800
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
> %if %{rescue}
> Release: %{rel}rescue
> %else
> -Release: %{rel}
> +Release: %{rel}%{?_with_chroot:chroot}
> %endif
> URL: http://www.openssh.com/portable.html
> Source0: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-%{version}.tar.gz
> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
> Patch4: openssh-3.9p1-skip-initial.patch
> Patch11: http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh-3.6.1p2-gssapi-20030430.diff
> Patch12: openssh-selinux.patch
> +Patch15: http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/download/osshChroot-3.6.1.diff
> License: BSD
> Group: Applications/Internet
> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-buildroot
> @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
> %if ! %{build6x}
> Requires: /etc/pam.d/system-auth
> %endif
> +%{?_with_chroot:Provides: ssh-server-chroot}
>
> %package askpass
> Summary: A passphrase dialog for OpenSSH and X.
> @@ -226,6 +227,10 @@
> %patch12 -p1 -b .selinux
> %endif
>
> +%if %{?_with_chroot:1}%{?!_with_chroot:0}%{?commentish:These constructs suck}
> +%patch15 -p1 -b .chroot
> +%endif
> +
> %build
> CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"; export CFLAGS
> %if %{rescue}
(yes, I hate line 89 too)
Okay, I'm in my meeting now, so I can't test/examine the RPMs at all,
but if you want to test something, grab these:
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/SRPMS.extras/openssh-3.9p1-1chroot.src.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-3.9p1-1chroot.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-clients-3.9p1-1chroot.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-server-3.9p1-1chroot.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-askpass-3.9p1-1chroot.i386.rpm
> Wrote: /home/bishop/public_html/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-1chroot.i386.rpm
They may work. I have them here (but get the right ones!) :
http://apt.platypus.bc.ca/~bis hop/apt/i386/wb30/RPMS.extras/
http://apt.platypus.bc.ca/~bis hop/apt/i386/wb30/SRPMS.extras/
I'll examine the RPM later today, as I mentioned.
To examine all the changes I've made to the SRPMS:
install one SRPM
move the dirname away (`mv RPM{,1}`)
install the other SRPM
compare them:
diff -uNr --exclude-from=openssh3.*gz RPM{1,}
I can send these diffs to you if you are interested.
- bish
Jean Lee wrote:
> 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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