[CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

Craig White
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:26:04 -0000

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 01:09 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I did a "yum groupremove Java" and that failed
"somehow". Yum listed all
> group members as "erased", but some rpm packages failed because
of missing
> config files or so. As a result none of the 50 packages were removed from
> the rpm database, but all of their files seem to have been removed.
> How can I clean them out from the rpm db?
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rpm -e --justdb some_package

rpm --help

Craig