On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
> Hello all, I had a few packages that I installed from binary RPMS. Later on
> I downloaded the sources for those packages (newer version than what was
> available as RPMs), compiled them, and installed them manually. However,
> the entries for the RPM still show up in rpm -qa. I would like to remove
> those entries from the RPM database (I assume that is where RPM stores them,
> I am a relative Linux newbie) without having RPM attempt to delete any of
> the associated files, since some of the files come from my build and are
> needed. Is there any easy way to do this, other than to un-install the RPM,
> then re-install from source?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> --Moby
>
Take a look at the --justdb option. (man rpm)
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