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Kim Lux wrote:
> I recently updated a server from fc3 to fc6. All seemed to go well
> except the first yum attempt to update the machine failed and when I
> entered synaptic I received a ton of errors about duplicate rpms
> installed on the machine. I've run into this issue before.
> Unfortunately neither yum nor synaptic has a way to deal with it, as far
> as I can tell.
>
> Rather than manually go through the list of offending rpms and delete
> them, I did things semi automatically. There were 120 duplicate rpms on
> my machine, so manually typing the full package names would have taken a
> while.
>
> Here is what I did instead.
>
> 1) Generate a list of all the rpm packages installed.
>
> $rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' > pkglist
>
> This generates an unsorted list that looks like this.
> libavc1394
> libmusicbrainz
> ethtool
> desktop-file-utils
> less
> time
> libXrandr
> rmt
>
> 2) Sort the list and find the duplicates
>
> $sort -g pkglist | uniq -d > duplicates
>
> This list will look like
>
> a2ps
> anacron
> at
> audit
> ...
>
> 3) Generate a list of the packages with versions to look at and edit
>
> I created a small script file called dupWithVersions with this in it
>
> for pkg in `cat duplicates`; do
> rpm -q $pkg
> done
>
> Redirect the output to another file like this. $dupWithVersions
>> removeList
>
> The remove list will look like this:
>
> a2ps-4.13b-57
> a2ps-4.13b-57.fc6.3
> anacron-2.3-41.fc6
> anacron-2.3-44.fc6
> at-3.1.8-82.fc6
> at-3.1.8-84.fc6
> audit-1.2.8-1.fc6
> audit-1.3-2.fc6
>
> Go through the remove list and manually remove the versions you want to
> KEEP ! Remember this is a list of rpms you want to remove !
>
> 4) Remove the rpms in the remove list.
>
> To do this I generated a little script as follows:
>
> for pkg in `cat removelist`; do
> rpm -e $pkg
> done
>
> This process quickly and correctly removed the duplicate rpms from my
> machine.
>
> I hope this helps someone.
>
This worries me a little bit. If you remove a package aren't you
likely to remove identically named files from the newer package as well?
I ask because I usually do a rpm -e --justdb <pkgname> as I once found
myself without some services after deleting an old package.
Scott
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