[CentOS] yum erase fails

Pintér Tibor wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I am trying to erase an rpm with yum erase. It fails:
>>
>> service hipfw does not support chkconfig
>>
>> Removed: hipl-firewall.i386 0:1.0.4.1
>> Complete!
>>
>> And it is not removed....
>>
>> If I try with rpm -e, I get the same error message.
>>
>>
>> So how do I remove this rpm?
>
> --noscripts ? 

tried 'yum --noscripts erase hipl-firewall' and got the error:

command line error: no such option: --noscirpts

Seems like what I would want, but a man yum did not show any such option....