On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:40:37 -0600, Robert wrote: > I don't know when/how this happened, but I'm sure there's a faster way > to fix this problem. My trusty old 32-bit F13 laptop seems to have > several duplicate packages on it. For example: > > # rpm -qa | grep foofile > foofile-1.0-fc14.noarch > foofile-1.0-fc13.noarch > > The fc14 file is a "sooner" that shouldn't be there. If I use rpm -e to > remove it, I suspect I'm removing all the files that also belong to the > fc13 package. If I try to remove the fc13 package with the intent of > immediately re-installing it, dependency hell often breaks out. > > Isn't there an rpm argument set that will allow me to simply > "overinstall" a currently-installed package, replacing any missing > files? I've tried 'rpm -ivh --replacepkgs' without success. The man page > for rpm could be a bit clearer. > > If I can clean this all up, I want to run preupgrade and bring it up to > F14 with a minimum of muss & fuss. Use the package-cleanup command from the yum-utils package. -- Alternatively, and more work would be to use RPM's options to erase packages only in the RPM package database. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
