yum remove half-of-my-system
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 13 17:45:23 UTC 2009
On Wed, 13 May 2009, John Poelstra wrote:
> John Poelstra said the following on 05/13/2009 10:40 AM Pacific Time:
>> Do we consider this a bug? There was no deps chain in Fedora 10 (it was a
>> single package add or remove) so it seems like a regression to me.
>>
>> John
>>
>> I got this while doing a 'yum remove sendmail' in latest rawhide.....
>
> <cut>
>
>> Transaction Summary
>> ================================================================================
>> Install 0 Package(s)
>> Update 0 Package(s)
>> Remove 474 Package(s)
>>
>
> To clarify, I do not think this is a yum bug.
>
I'd need to see the rest of the depsolving output - but it seems like a
valid removal chain.
sendmail removes smtpdaemon.
now if you want to remove sendmail and replace it with another smtpdaemon
then you can use yum shell:
yum shell
> remove sendmail
> install postfix # (or exim or whatever)
> run
that should work correctly.
-sv
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