Re: RPM database question

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:54:53 -0800
David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
>   David
>
hi david,
The attached script will put a list on your term of the  double
packages.
Ignore kernels and keys, they seem to do no harm.
>From the list I manually remove the oldest.

henk

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