Yum Diagnostic

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:36:54 -0700, Fred Krogh wrote:

> I've just recently got setup to do updates to a Redhat 7.3 system.  
> After running
> 
> yum update
> 
> I get
> 
> Resolving dependencies
> .conflict between mysql and MySQL
> conflict between mysql-server and MySQL-server
> 
> This is not too surprising as the following shows.
> 
>  rpm -q mysql-server MySQL-server mysql-client MySQL-client mysql MySQL
> mysql-server-3.23.49-3
> package MySQL-server is not installed
> package mysql-client is not installed
> MySQL-client-3.23.43-1
> mysql-3.23.49-3
> MySQL-3.23.43-1
> 
> I have no idea how I managed to get both mysql and MySQL installed.
> I'm guessing that what I have called mysql-server is now called 
> MySQL-server.

No. The packages with upper-case names are not from Red Hat Linux,
but from some other site.
 
> mysql --version    ###### gives
> mysql  Ver 11.16 Distrib 3.23.49, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)
> 
> The database server is running all the time.
> 
> I'm thinking I can rpm --erase MySQL but since it has programs common 
> with mysql I'm concerned that I may lose what I'm currently using for 
> mysql, and I don't seem to have that rpm.
> 
> The questions are:
> 
> 1. Can I rpm --erase MySQL without wiping out mysql?

Yes.

rpm --erase --justdb --noscripts --notriggers MySQL-server MySQL-client
 
But double-check which one of the two installed packages is the
currently active one!