Good uninstallation practice?

[Émeric Maschino]

> >> 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.
> >
> > 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.

The --nopostun option did the trick for me. Thanks for the hint.