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IBM / ibmichroot

A set of scripts to facilitate the use of chroot-based containers for IBM i
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Uninstall capabilities #28

Closed abmusse closed 8 years ago

abmusse commented 8 years ago

Original report by Aaron Bartell (Bitbucket: aaronbartell, GitHub: aaronbartell).

Currently we don't have simple uninstall for ibmichroot; automated or documented or otherwise. For the immediate future we can document how to do it manually:

rpm --nodeps -e git

but further than that do we want to pursue something like apt or yum for dependency management?

Perzl says no YUM because rpm version is 3.x and YUM requires 4.x.

I am documenting this because it came up as a need today.

Thoughts?

abmusse commented 8 years ago

Original comment by Aaron Bartell (Bitbucket: aaronbartell, GitHub: aaronbartell).

Resolved by adding documentation in READ.md in this commit. Included warnings and what not.

abmusse commented 8 years ago

Original comment by Tony Cairns (Bitbucket: rangercairns, GitHub: rangercairns).

Well, uninstall is tricky business. That is to say, "short names", essentially "wild cards" are normal rpm uninstall. As you may deduce, can lead to confusion, or, unintended removals. Documenting is just fine.

YUM, well, maybe someday. I am not excited for IBM i to standalone, do it all, be it all, aka, lead shinning way for AIX. So, yes, i enjoy the silent IBM i partnership of rpms-and-things created by AIX sites like perzl, aix toolbox. Hey, if AIX wants to get it's open source act together with YUM, we can all go along (hint).