[PLUG] rpm

[mikeraz at patch.com]

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 06:12:52AM -0700, Paul Heinlein typed:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> > [root at cmc02020 bin]# rpm -qa | grep vnc
> > vnc-doc-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1
> > vnc-doc-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1
> > vnc-server-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1
> > [root at cmc02020 bin]# rpm -e vnc-server-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1
> > error: package vnc-server-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1 is not installed
> > [root at cmc02020 bin]# rpm -e vnc-doc-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1
> > error: package vnc-doc-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1 is not installed
> > [root at cmc02020 bin]#
> 
> I realize I'm jumping into this discussion a bit late, but here are a 
> few scattershot suggestions...
> 
> a. Have you tried single-quoting the rpm name/number? I just wonder if 
>    the shell or rpm is doing odd things with the + character.
> 
>    rpm -e 'vnc-server-3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2-1'

Same result
 
> [... more of same result]
> 
> d. Have you tried the 'allmatches' option?
> 
>    rpm -e -vv --allmatches vnc-doc
> 

Huh?  What?  That's not mentioned in the online version of Maximum RPM, in 
the section about 'Additional options to -e'  

see: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/max-rpm-html/s1-rpm-erase-additional-options.html

But now that you mention it, if I take the time to `man rpm`, instead of running all over the 
Internet to find my documentation there --allmatches is, right in the summary at the top.


So much for man pages being out of date.

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