Severe RPM bug, causing file removel, FC-6 showstopper?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:07:23 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:52, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 4) I fixed this with "rpm -e fedora-release-notes-5.92-5" (the old ver)
> 
> I do believe this should have been a --justdb flag.

Why?

User wants to remove any files on disk, which are not included in the new
package. Everything else which still belongs to a package in the db must
not be removed by rpm. --noscripts --notriggers would be much more
appropriate for a manual removal like this than --justdb.
 
> > 5) When I started firefox it said it couldn't find:
> >     /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
>