duplicate packages after up2date failure

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Oct 9 23:30:22 UTC 2005


At 4:53 PM -0500 10/9/05, Damian Menscher wrote:
 ...
>My guess is that the cleanest thing to do is remove the newer of each
>pair from the database and then run up2date, which should upgrade
>everything (fixing any old files on disk).  My proposed script for doing
>this is:
 ...
>Does this look reasonable to everyone, or is there a better way to
>handle this problem?

I think I'd want to make sure that the old version packages were intact,
with rpm -Vv, before deleting the newer ones, just in case I might be
depending on some of them.
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