On Tuesday 03 May 2005 19:59, Jim Cornette wrote: > Claude Jones wrote: > > I've not touched any of these types yet. I did remove a bunch in the > > former category. In this second category there are at least 15-20 of > > these. > > A great suggestion was made by someone earlier about the multiple > versions of same packages showing up. The safest thing to do is to > rpm -e package --justdb > the earlier version instead of just rpm -e package. The reason explained > deals with removing common files between the older and the newer > version. The newer version probably already updated common files that > have changed. > > Check a few of the packages with the --verify option given to rpm for > the remaining packages that were not removed to see if they check out > alright. > > rpm -q --verify remaining-package > > Jim > > PS - Stopping rpm, up2date or yum before they complete do cause this > multiple version per upgraded packages currently. The database is > probably in a state where the database entries were never removed. The > older packages were probably successfully removed already. This came in a bit too late. However, thanks to you and everyone else who had helpful suggestions on this. Looks like all is well, now. I did a yum clean all and things seem back to normal. I shall follow the several suggestions made about doing major yum updates incrementally, in the future. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
