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.
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.
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