On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Hi, just had a wonderful experience with apt-get while running a > dist-upgrade.... > It crashed after installing a couple of hundred packages, leaving my > system with dual installs of those packages. Urgh.. that sounds seriously ugly: if you end up with dual installs of packages it basically means that rpm post% failed for each of those. While an occasional %post failures do happen due to bad scriptlets and such it's not a healthy sign if hundreds of packages are failing that way. > What I had to do was manually remove all the packages not needed, or at > least that was what i ended up doing. > Just wondered if anyone has a better solution for this, is there a tool > for checking for dual installs and removing the lowest version? I don't think such a tool exists but wouldn't be hard to write with rpm-python bindings.. - Panu -
