[CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

[Kai Schaetzl]

Kai Schaetzl wrote on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:16 +0100:

> I'll dig up all the packages from the yum log and try it.

That still fails for a few packages because of the order I got from the 
log. I was able to erase all of them from the rpm db now. But the whole 
thing very much looks like a bug, or actually two bugs, in the 
uninstallation procedure. I now got the errors again that I had neglected 
to write down earlier.

rpm -e tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.89407: line 1: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or 
directory
error: %postun(tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386) scriptlet 
failed, exit status 127

rpm -e tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.32859: line 5: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or 
directory
error: %postun(tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386) scriptlet 
failed, exit status 127

rpm -e tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99715: line 5: /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db: No such file or 
directory
error: %postun(tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5.i386) 
scriptlet failed, exit status 127

in consequence some other packages could not be removed because of 
dependencies

To me that looks like two bugs:

1. several packages all want to remove the same file that obviously got 
already removed by another package in the chain

2. the postuninstall scriptlet lets the whole erase procedure fail because 
of a missing file, I think that's rather drastic

If that is a bug, where to report?

Kai

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