Robinson Tiemuqinke writes:
But when I tried to see what's in my rpm database, I found that there are duplicate entries for all packages upgraded before hang -- Yum doesn't cleanup the old version info from rpm database because it hanged and then be killed. Any one know how to deal with this problem effectively? I hate to list tens of obsoleted rpms oneby one and feed them to "rpm -e --justdb" command.
Well, that's just what you'll have to do.When I upgraded from FC3 to FC4, for some reason every invocation of /sbin/ldconfig from a %post and %postun segfaulted, when anaconda was doing its business. The end result was a crapload of packages that had both the old and the new package versions in rpmdb. This was 100% reproducible, with each machine that I upgraded from FC3 to FC4. This was even more fun with the x86_64 FC, with multilib packages.
rpm can really blow goats, sometimes.So, I just had to write a script to find every package with dupe versions installed, and remove the obsoleted version of the package.
That's life.
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