If you run this all on one line, it will list all of your RPMS, find
the packages that have 2 or more listed entries, sort them from new to
old, and tell rpm to delete them. Cut off the last bit, the xargs
part, if you just want to see a list of the redundant packages.
Even if you don't need it right now, you should save it, because it
has come in handy for me a couple of times.
for file in `rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq
-c | grep -v " 1 " | cut -c 9- | cut -d" " -f1`; do rpm -q --last
$file | tail -1 | cut -d" " -f1; done | grep -v gpg-pubkey | grep -v
kernel | xargs rpm -e
It seems to me that EVERY single time I've tried to run a DVD upgrade
of Fedora Core 4, the install bogs down and quits after installing
about three-fourths of the packages. That's bad because it leaves a
full set of FC4 packages as well as the FC5 new ones. This script
really helps to kill the duplicates.
On 4/28/06, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 one
> by 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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