Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:54 -0800, David Boles wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> David Boles wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry if this posts twice. It did not appear to post.
>>>>
>>>> I seem to recall that there was a long CLI command that would list the
>>>> 'duplicate installs' in the RPM database. These caused false dependency
>>>> problems because RPM thought the 'old' version was still installed.
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>> foopackage-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm and
>>>> foopackage-1.2.3-2.i386.rpm
>>>>
>>>> And there was a way to repair this.
>>>>
>>>> Would someone please post this if it is still an option? Or another
>>>> solution?
>>> If you don't actually want to remove, then you can do:
>>>
>>> rpm -e --justdb.
>>>
>> I want to thank eveyone for their help and suggestions. But...
>>
>> Either I can not type or I am just not doing something exactly correctly. Or
>> maybe it is not possible anymore.
>>
>> Sometimes the rpm database would get stuck with two listings of the same
>> package and one is -1 number higher in version. Or .1 higher. There WAS a way
>> to get RPM to ONLY show the duplicate packages that had different version
>> numbers. Not all of them with the duplicates listed together in a long list.
>> This duplicate problem would cause dependency problems. The older version
>> could then be rpm -e <old packagename/number> by looking at the list and that
>> would solve this problem.
>
> The previously-offered suggestion of:
>
> $ rpm -q $(rpm -qa --queryformat %{NAME}'\n' | sort | uniq -d)
>
> produces this output on one of my boxes:
>
> gpg-pubkey-b56a8bac-3bbc4d06
> gpg-pubkey-10a792ad-3ee367d2
> gpg-pubkey-1cddbca9-3f9da14c
> gpg-pubkey-897da07a-3c979a7f
> gpg-pubkey-30c9ecf8-3f9da3f7
> gpg-pubkey-92f0fc09-3ada4b35
> gpg-pubkey-ab75cc45-3e3e9f10
> gpg-pubkey-23b66a9d-40912de4
> gpg-pubkey-e418e3aa-3f439953
> gpg-pubkey-db42a60e-37ea5438
> gpg-pubkey-4f2a6fd2-3f9d9d3b
> gpg-pubkey-1ac70ce6-41bebeef
> gpg-pubkey-161c06b1-3e966e6a
> gpg-pubkey-396f0789-3e642261
> gpg-pubkey-c431416d-3db4c821
> gpg-pubkey-99ca41f4-431dd03c
> kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4
> kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
> kernel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4
> kernel-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4
> kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
> kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4
> kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
> kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1644_FC4
> kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4
> kernel-devel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
>
> Is that not the sort of output you're after, with only the duplicate
> packages listed, with full version/release info?
>
> Paul.
>
>
My results from rpm -q $(rpm -qa --queryformat %{NAME}'\n' | sort | uniq -d)
are
bash: uniq-d: command not found
rpmq: no arguments given for query
--
David
