Good uninstallation practice?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:36 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:17 +0200, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What's the correct way to manually uninstall a package that failed to
> >> uninstall during an update? For example, during the update of
> >> hal-cups-utils with today's Rawhide, I'm getting:
> >>
> >>    Cleanup   : hal-cups-utils               #####################
> >> [224/257]
> >> error: %postun(hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2.ia64) scriptlet failed, exit
> >> status 1
> >>
> >> I now have hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2 and hal-cups-utils-0.6.0-1 installed
> >> on my system and would like to uninstall the old one.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> 	Émeric
> > 
> > rpm -e hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-2
> 
> This will still cause the %postun script to fail.  Adding the --nopostun 
> option seems to do the trick.

Perhaps a bug should also be filed against this package to get the
scriptlet to "fail cleanly" and not break rpm transactions, which can
result in duplicate packages being left etc.

Paul.