On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:11 -0400, H. S. wrote: > Hi, > > To install nvidia driver, I had to download kernel srpm > (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.src.rpm). > 1. Then I installed this using "rpm -Uvh <rpm name>" > 2. The I did: "/usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 > kernel-2.6.spec" The src was not needed > After this, I also had to install kernel-devel using yum to get nvidia > compiled. kernel-devel was needed. > Anyhow, my question is, I have the nvidia driver and I wanted to undo > whatever was done by Steps 1 and 2 above. I have just done: > /usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpmbuild --rmsource kernel-2.6.spec > > which got rid of all the files from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE. But I still > seem to have the kernel source in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD: > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD# ls -l > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 13 15:08 kernel-2.6.12 > > > How do I remove this 'the Redhat way'? I don't want to try "rm -rf" > unless I know this wouldn't somehow mess with the RPM database of the > machine. That would not mess with the database at all. However, it would leave the package listed as installed. Try rpm -qa kernel\* then identify the source package that was installed in step 1 above and do rpm -e kernel-XXX where kernel-XXX is the source package you installed. > thanks, > ->HS > >
