On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 13:30 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 07:19 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > Installing an SRPM does not affect the RPM database at all. That > includes the list of installed packages. There will be no kernel-XXX > package to remove as a result of installing a kernel-XXX.src.rpm. > > Paul. This is why I stay on this list. I often learn things that I otherwise would not know until I needed to use them. I know that installed packages are put into the rpm database, and was not aware until now that the source packages were excluded from the database. Thanks Paul for that tidbit.
