rpm -e taking ages

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 12:33 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:32, Paul wrote:
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> > rpm -e kernel-2.6.5-1.315 kernel-source-2.6.5-1.315
> > kernel-smp-2.6.5-1.315
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> > it can take upto 9 minutes to do the operation? I'm using a 1.7GHz
> > Celeron with 768Mb of memory if that helps.
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> I realize this sounds a little bizarre, but is it possible you deleted some 
> files belonging to these or another kernel version?  Eg, 
> rm-rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.315 ?  I have seen rpm become very displeased 
> with me under these circumstances, next time a related -e was attempted.
> 

Have also notices rpm -e operations on kernel/kernel-source can take a
LONG time.  Not a very apparent/strong correlation to the CPU/disk
setup, single processor or SMP, although disk speed in particular is
obviously a factor for big packages like kernel-source.  The slow
response happens even when the neither the source directory nor /boot
has been touched.

Phil