On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:04 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 17:10, Ray Curtis wrote: > > > > You might also try: > > > > rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d | xargs rpm -q > > > Very nice - I will spend time to figure out how you did this: > I have another question: Some of the duplicate packages were real obvious, > like this: > > apr-devel-0.9.4-23 > apr-devel-0.9.4-24.2 > > But what about something like this: > > boost-devel-1.31.0-9 > boost-devel-1.32.0-5.fc3 > > 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. There's not really a great deal of difference between the two. The first case is two different RPM build revisions of an identical package version, the second is two different package versions. The action to take is the same for both: remove the older package: # rpm -e apr-devel-0.9.4-23 # rpm -e boost-devel-1.31.0-9 Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>