[CentOS] yum: removing Java group fails

Wed Mar 26 00:26:04 UTC 2008
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>

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